Re: Ideas behind GtkTextBuffer and GtkTextView

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Harald Simon <harald simon luebeck netsurf de> writes:

> hi,
> 
> today, i had a look at the 2.0 api and the new text widget. i am very 
> glad to see, that the text widget will get some features which i miss. 
> for some days i did start to port the tktext widget to gtk. in the new 
> api reference if found some related description of the ideas which are 
> very closed to the ideas behind the tktext, but not all. will the new 
> text widget have the same functionality like the tktext widget? i found 
> out that the widget will use tags and bindings (like in tk). will it 
> also possible to add windows

Probably. (If you mean widgets.) There are some sticky 
implementation issues that we have to fix.

>  and images like in tk

Yes.

> and to change the appearence of tagged text if i change the tag
> properties?

Yes. That's how you change the appearance of text.

Regards,
                                        Owen