Re: [gtk-list] Re: gtktext and other stuff

[Arun Sharma <asharma netscape com>]

Jay Painter <jpaint@serv.net> writes:

Jay,

> Arun,
>   I started working on the Text widget last week.  I've already got it
> editing, and I'm now working on line cache pruning.

I was looking at the text widgets of other toolkits (Motif, Qt and Tk)
and it appears that both Motif and Qt do not support multiple colors
and fonts in the text widget.

To me the line cache, text property list etc seem to be an overkill
for most applications. A simple text widget with good default editing
functions would satisfy the needs of 90% of the applications.

As far as supporting multiple fonts and colors goes - Tk has
mechanisms for inserting arbitrary widgets inside the text widget -
which I found interesting.

	-Arun

PS: What exactly is line cache pruning ?