Re: GtkEditable forcing of scrolling

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Dugas, Alan" <alan.dugas@analog.com> writes:
> I am trying to implement a string search function.  I would like
> this function to snap to, as opposed to scrolling to, the text that
> it matches.  However, the only method I've come up with relies on
> gtk_editable_set_position() followed by
> gtk_adjustment_value_changed() to move to the text matched (see code
> snippet below).  It seems to me that a third argument to
> gtk_editable_set_position() should be available to let the
> programmer decide if it's more appropriate to snap to, or scroll to,
> the new position.  Does this make sense to anybody or am I going
> about this wrong?  Any and all suggestions to implementing a method
> of snapping to a new position in a text widget would be greatly
> appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> 

I don't understand what you mean by "snap to" vs. "scrolling to". Can
you explain what "snap to" means?

Havoc