Re: FYI: GtkText design progress

[Thomas Mailund Jensen <mailund daimi au dk>]

>>>>> "D" == Derek Simkowiak <dereks@kd-dev.com> writes:

 >> this is one important thing you need to have specified in the
 >> forefield.  one user_data pointer is seldomly sufficient, there
 >> will always be multiple domains wanting to set specific properties
 >> on text portions.

 D> 	Will there really be multiple domains wanted to modify the
 D> data in a single application?  I'd think that the user_data would
 D> point to a struct complex or large enough to hold any data the
 D> user needed for that application.

 D> 	Also, FYI, the user_data API and pointer were added there for
 D> the gIDE project, by the GtkSCText widget (which I am using for my
 D> base code).

Only 'cause I wasn't thinking when I did that...now, I would probably
have done it differently.

Having something similar to datalists would make user data handling
much easier for the application programmer IMHO, and I don't think it
will demand _that_ much extra work for the text widget.

        /mailund