Re: Something like console widget

[Pavel Syomin <syomin radico ru>]

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

> Pavel Syomin wrote:
>
> > Hi, I am going to write GTK+ application, that will use something 
> > like console window as one of possible ways to interact with users. I 
> > looked on libvte, but it's require to have another application to 
> > run, but I need something looked as console widget to integrate it to 
> > my application. Can anybody help me?
>
>
> If I undestood you concern about libvte, that is, if you think you 
> need to run an application inside the vte, I can assure you that is 
> not true. You can have a vte that does not run anything, and use the 
> vte_terminal_feed() to add text to the terminal. It should similarly 
> be possible to capture the user input in the vte, but I cannot say 
> much about that because in my application I use vte's as output-only 
> widgets.
I don't think, that such usage of VteTerminal is a really good idea.
I decide to write custom widget, that will use GtkTextView to catch user 
input and show output, but I'm in confusion about what GTK-widget should 
be parent for my custom widget. Can anybody suggest newbie?