Re: GtkText widget

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Gert <gs2@nowmoo.demon.nl> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I had a couple of questions/suggestions about the GtkText widget.
> In the tarballs of the latest releases, there is a file
> docs/text_widget.txt. Are the things that are described there as `todo'
> being implemented by someone ?
> 
> Things needed/wished (by me):
> o Horizontal scrolling
> o Overwriting text
> o Underlined text
> o Blinking text
> 
> Then there is this, why can't you delete (gtk_editable_delete_text()) text
> from a widget that isn't inside the screen (The widget scrolls itself to
> that place.). This is _very_ inconvenient if you (I) want to append
> lines and delete the same number of lines from the beginning .... :(
> 
> Anyway, is someone working on this?
> If not, I might want to try doing this, but I'm _not_ an experienced
> Widget coder, so It will probably take me a lot of time ....

Basically, the code base for the current Text widget is
not maintainable and there are no plans for future work
on it. There will a new Text widget in GTK+ 1.4, though
it hasn't been decided yet if it will be completley
from scratch or will use code from elsewhere.

If we have a decent framework, adding more features should
be easy. Currently, adding more features is only
going to reduce stability.

[ I'm not sure about the blinking text though, there are
  limits... ;-) ]

Regards,
                                        Owen