Re: GtkText/Editable and scrolling with large amounts of text

[Paul Davis <pbd Op Net>]

>    I have a read-only GtkText widget that is required to scroll large
>amounts (ie up to 70,000 lines) at a time, based on the actions of a
>list widget. Problem is, scrolling through, say, 60,000 lines, can take
>minutes (with the text widget hidden. Without the text widget hidden,
>the scroll would take hours to complete).
>    My question - is it possible to speed the scrolling up without
>hacking the gtk source?

i am not intimately familiar with GtkText, but i've been on this list
long enough to know that the answer is something like "GtkText is
horribly broken, deprecated and totally replaced by some Pango-using
widget in GTK+ 1.3/2.0"

--p