Re: New Text Widget?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

ntm <ntm@linuxstart.com> writes:
> 
> I'm writing a MUD client and I ran into trouble right at the
> beginning.  I need a nice fast way of displaying text, and both
> gtktext and zvtterm didn't cut it for me.  I was considering writing
> a custom widget for this application but then I saw the plans for
> the new text widget in gtk+-1.4.  I was wondering where I can find
> some specifications for this widget to find out if it is faster than
> the current gtktext and zvtterm widgets.
> 

ZvtTerm displays text on X about as fast as it can possibly be
displayed. I can't imagine how it could be causing you problems.
What are you trying to do with the widget?

The new widget is not going to be faster than that by any means, but
you can see it in the CVS module 'gtk+'.

Havoc