Re: Getting text out of a GtkTextView

[Alejandro García Rodríguez <agarcia die upm es>]

	Hello, list!

	The following link tells you how to get the contents of the
entire text widget as a string:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-question-index.html#id2850623

    GtkTextIter start, end;
    GtkTextBuffer *buffer;
    char *text;

    buffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (text_view));
    gtk_text_buffer_get_bounds (buffer, &start, &end);
    text = gtk_text_iter_get_text (&start, &end);
    ...use text...
    g_free (text);

	;) Just copy. It has to work, doesn't it?
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Carl B. Constantine wrote:

> I have a GtkTextView in one of my application windows; mainly because a
> GtkEntry is only single width and I want text wrapping and so forth.
>
> Anyway, I'm trying to get the text from the GtkTextView but only end up
> with 'null' when I try to print it. Here is a code snipped:
>
> void insertCustomer( GtkWidget	*customers )
> {
> 	GtkTextBuffer	*specialBuffer;
> 	GtkTextView		*specialView;
> 	GtkTextIter		*start;
> 	GtkTextIter		*end;
> 	gchar*			*specialText;
>
>     specialView = lookup_widget(customers, "cust_instructions");
> 	specialBuffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer(specialView);
> 	gtk_text_buffer_get_bounds(specialBuffer, start, end);
> 	specialText = gtk_text_buffer_get_text(specialBuffer, start, end, FALSE);
> 	g_print("Special Text: %s \n",specialText);
> }
>
> I actually want to be able to insert that text into a database field but
> it's not working.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
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