Re: GtkTextView - The “extend-selection” signal

["Lucky B.C" <lblackc13 gmail com>]

Hi, I don't know how to give a good answer in this case. I'm using the
gtk3 too, but I also have a small project in the gtk1.2. I only change
gtk version when I think it should be changed. Most first open sources
the developer used gtk2 for now!

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:11 PM, Karan Ahuja <karan26 ahuja gmail com> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> On a related note - I have about a 1000 lines of code working well and using
> gtk source view.
>
> All this is in gtk 3+
>
>
> I probably have another work of  500 lines to go before I start trying to
> demo/release  to users.
>
> should I be prioritizing about :
>
> a) upgrading to gtk 4
> b) getting the final application to work on windows, mac ? Now   I am
> testing on fedora as I code...
>
> Thank you for awesome support so far.
>
> cheers,
> karan
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 8:32 PM, Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Lucky B.C <lblackc13 gmail com> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get the range of the selected word by
> > > gtk_text_iter_get_offset (start) and gtk_text_ter_get_offset (end) on
> > > the “extend-selection” signal,
> >
> > Right, that doesn't work. There is no selected word when the signal
> > handler is run, as it's the handler itself that is responsible for
> > *setting* the selection in the first place. That is, both 'start' and
> > 'end' are uninitialized and the handler is expected to set them to the
> > start and end of the word (or line). If you are fine with the
> > selection that the default signal handler provides and want to get the
> > selection bounds, you can connect to the 'notify::has-selection'
> > signal on the text view's buffer and use
> > gtk_text_buffer_get_selection_bounds() to get the range.
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