Re: Determining the number of visible lines in a GtkTextView

[Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org>]

> > >     Well, besides determining the width of the
> > > GtkTextView in
> > > characters, I also need to determine its height in
> > > lines, or the number
> > > of visible lines. I've tried a solution with font
> > > metrics, but the value

Here's an outline. It's pygtk, but I'm sure you can figure it out.
rect = textview.get_visible_rect()
low_iter = textview.get_line_at_y(rect.y)[0]
high_iter = textview.get_line_at_y(rect.y + rect.height)[0]
lines_visible = high_iter.get_line() - low_iter.get_line()

Stephen.
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