Re: Cursor position - Deletion of Text.

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

    Henry> 1 - How do I get the cursor in a particular position: I have a pop
    Henry> up window with a form, and the cursor has to be in a particular
    Henry> entry.  This has to be built in, no keyboard or mouse.

gtk_request_focus(widget)

    Henry> 2 - I have a GtkText that has some text in it that I got some
    Henry> way. I need to press a button and have the text disappear and the
    Henry> widget be ready to receive a new text. All this in the program, no
    Henry> human intervention by keyboard or mouse.

[Note: I haven't actually tried this, but it should work]
gtk_editable_delete_text(GTK_EDITABLE(text_widget), 0, 2000000)
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