Re: [gtk-list] GtkText: annoying scroll

[Marc <marc upr41 univ-rennes1 fr>]

Some Guy wrote:
> 
>   I saw a question in the archives about a search+replace function, to
> scroll to a certain point when a string is found.  The answer posted was
> to just do a insert_text/delete_text combo where the string was found.
> There are two problems with this solution: one, if the text is frozen,
> this doesn't work. Two, instead of just zipping down to where the text is
> inserted, it scrolls (which can take quite a long time if there is a lot
> of text between the current point and the insertion point).

I recently posted a question on this subject but no-one answered... 

>   I looked through the gtktext.c source, and found a static function
> find_line_at_point, which is called by gtk_text_insert_text if the text is
> unfrozen. My question is, why is this function static? It seems like a
> very valuable function, and if it were available to use by an application
> it would really help with stuff like search+replace (there is even a flag
> to set whether it scrolls to the line or just zaps right there!).

You've been investigated far more than me... Great !

> Can this function be made public in the next gtk release, or at least a
> wrapper function? It would be very useful.

This would be a fearsome idea !!! Hope you'll be listened.

Waiting for the next gtk release with impatience. 
Thanx.

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Marc
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