RE: best way to cutomize gtktextview

["Boncek, John" <jboncek hunter com>]

And end block A with a zero-width space (U+200B).  Please let us know how
this works out.. 

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[mailto:gtk-app-devel-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of David Necas
(Yeti)
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 5:55 AM
To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: best way to cutomize gtktextview

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:42:00PM +0200, mehmet YASAR wrote:
> I'm displaying "logical block" of text inside a gtktextview and I need
to control how it is displayed.
> I'm mainly using gtktextview's line wrapping but I may insert some new
line.
> Let suppose I have two blocks (A & B), the resulting string is:
>       "AAAAA A AAAA A AABBB BBBBBBBBB BBBB B"
>
> I want the gtktextview to display it (depending on the gtktextview's
width)
>       AAAAA A AAAA A AABBB BBBBBBBBB BBBB B\n
> or 
>       AAAAA A AAAA A AA \n
>       BBB BBBBBBBBB BBBB B
>
> What I've done is:
> - catch "size-allocate" signal
> - use gtk_text_view_forward_display_line_end to check how the block are
displayed
> - insert new line into gtktextbuffer where necessary
>
> That works but it is a bit slow, is there a better way to do it ?

If it is possible, the far easiest way is to use
non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) not normal spaces (U+0020) for
non-breaking spaces.  That's why they exist.

Yeti