Re: FYI: GtkText current design issues

["Shawn T . Amundson" <amundson eventloop com>]

On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 03:22:54PM -0800, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
> > Yep.  It would not be very hard to actually port the Tk Text widget to
> > Gtk.  I believe it is worth doing.
> 
> 	I'm looking at it now.  Unlike Nedit, Emacs, GtkText, the Java
> Swing text editor, et.al. it does not use a gapped text buffer at all.  
> It holds everything in a BTree (where 'everything' includes text, lines,
> and property marks).
> 
> 	If I can understand this widget, I may re-focus my efforts into
> porting it to Gtk+ and abandon the "improved GtkText" idea.  The source is
> very clean and well-commented.
> 
> 
> --Derek
> 

When we ported Tk's Packer to GTK+, we found that to be extremely
easy.  The Text widget sounds much harder to me, but would be 
much more useful than Packer has been. ;-)

-Shawn

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