Re: Odd GtkTextView behavior

["Ian King [ES]" <king eiffel com>]

Hi Havoc,

I would imagine it would be a useful fix as from what I can see at the 
moment there is no way to change the default style of the TextView so 
that newly inserted characters can use the "current style".  This means 
that when you are typing new text you always have to set the "current 
style" to each new character, which of course is not good.  Is there a 
way to change the default style of the TextView so that I can do it this 
way instead of applying tags to the newly typed characters each time.

Thanks for your time

Ian King

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 18:51, Ian King [ES] wrote:
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> > I've noticed when using the GtkTextView widget that when it is being 
> > used in normal operation, for things such as a word processor or code 
> > editor, when the caret is placed at the end of  a word and text is 
> > entered on the keyboard, the control doesn't print the new text in the 
> > style of the previous character.  Is this expected behavior or a bug?  
> > This can be tested by using the TextView demo launched from gtk-demo.
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> It is expected, though it's the kind of thing that should probably be
> changed in GTK+ 3.0 (i.e. if we ever break the ABI again). Apps such as
> gedit track the "current style" and apply it to newly-inserted text
> themselves, I believe.
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> One ABI-compatible patch might be to add a "sticks to newly inserted
> text" property to GtkTextTag - don't know if that would work, but if
> someone coded the patch and put it in bugzilla it seems like a
> reasonable feature. We'd want to cc the gedit guys and other heavy
> TextView users on the bug and see if they think it's a useful fix.
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> Havoc
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