Re: How does one set background color for entire line in textview? <- not possible

[Tony Freeman <tony freeman insightbb com>]

I've searched all over and I figure that this type of functionality is
not possible at the current time.

I'll just have to do without :-)

-- Tony


On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 15:06 -0500, Tony Freeman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a function that takes the output of a spawned process and
> displays that in a text buffer (part of a notebook widget).  When the
> spawned process is finished, I'd like to put some colorized text at the
> bottom of the text buffer/view that alerts the user that the process is
> done.
>
> What I want is the entire line to have a background color of blue.  The
> code that I have so far just displays the blue background under the
> text.
>
> How do I make the entire line blue?
>
>
> switch (status) {
>       case G_IO_STATUS_NORMAL:
>               return TRUE;
>       default:
>               /* Use a tag to make the DONE notification noticeable */
>               tag = gtk_text_buffer_create_tag (
>                       buffer, "done_notification", 
>                       "foreground", "white", 
>                       "background", "blue", 
>                       "justification", GTK_JUSTIFY_CENTER,
>                       "background-full-height", TRUE,
>                       NULL);
>               start_byte = gtk_text_buffer_get_char_count(buffer);
>               gtk_text_buffer_insert(buffer, &iter, 
>                       "\n----------\nDONE\n----------\n", -1);
>               end_byte = gtk_text_buffer_get_char_count(buffer);
>               gtk_text_buffer_get_iter_at_offset (buffer, 
>                       &start, start_byte);
>               gtk_text_buffer_get_iter_at_offset (buffer, 
>                       &end, end_byte);
>               gtk_text_buffer_apply_tag (buffer, tag, &start, &end);
>               end_mark = gtk_text_buffer_create_mark(
>                       buffer, "end_mark", &end, FALSE);
>               gtk_text_view_scroll_to_mark(textview, end_mark, 
>                       0.0, FALSE, 0.0, 0.0);
>               return FALSE;
> }
>
> -- Tony
>
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