Re: [gtk-list] RE: IRC client

[Elliot Lee <sopwith cuc edu>]

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Tony Gale wrote:

> On 27-Jan-98 Jeff wrote:
> > 
> > has anyone started a GTK IRC client yet?
> 
> Yes. Me.
> 
> There is also one called girc as part of gnome, but it seems to be
> vaporware.

It's horrible as vaporware though - it actually works... (I'm rewriting
parts of it, and there seems to be a bug with the tty windows not
appearing (I think Tim Janik changed Gtk_TTY somehow, and the problem lies
in obgnome...), but it fills all the basic needs of an IRC client -
/server (and per-connection windows), /join, /msg etc. etc. All the
network interface layer is done, just have to improve the UI and the IRC
protocol handling a little. 

Feel free to grab the code out of CVS and hack at it at your leisure.

> ObGTK Question: I have a text widget (oh not again I hear you scream) 
> with a vertical scrollbar attached, which works fine. But, when I insert
> text I would like the view to change such that the new text becomes
> visible if it goes off the bottom, ie. it scrolls down. How can I do
> that?

You connect to the "changed" (or is it "value_changed" signal on the
adjustment used for the scroll bar...

Something like:

@implementation MyApp
- initApp:(int) argc
	:(char ***) argv
{
...
	myadjustment = [[Gtk_Adjustment alloc] initWithBlahInfo];
	[myadjustment connectObj:"value_changed" :self];
...
}
- value_changed:(id) the_signalled_object
{
	if(the_signalled_object == myadjustment)
		{
			/* Move the text view here 
		}
	return self;
}
@end

Hope this helps,
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