Re: Marshalling/Serialization Gtk::TextBuffer

[Stephen Dennison <stephenrd gmail com>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:32:18 +0100, Jean Bréfort
<jean brefort normalesup org> wrote:
> Le mer 10/11/2004 à 10:09, Murray Cumming a écrit :
> 
> 
> > (This time with the correct gtk-list address.)
> >
> > [snip]
> > > I need a way of serializing a Gtk::TextBuffer
> > > for a note making application that I'm working on.  I'd like to
> > > support basic formatting and unicode text, and the TextBuffer and a
> > TextView seem to be a pretty good way of doing this.
> > [snip]
> >
> > So, I think the problem is that you want to save formatting (tags) as well
> > as the text itself. I don't think that there is API for this already, but
> > I think that I've seen some message somewhere from Havoc talking about the
> > possibility. I'm CCing to gtk-list in case anybody else has an idea.
> >
> > In the worst case, it shouldn't be too difficult to do this yourself. I
> > recommend libxml++ if you want to use an XML document format.
> 
> I have done this in GChempaint using libxml2, not libxml++ :-(. The
> appropriate methodes are gcpText::Save and gcpText::SaveNode in
> lib/text.cc
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gchempaint/gchempaint/lib/text.cc
> 
> 

Thanks!

I'll try this out tonight when I get home from work tonight.  Looks
like it'll do what I need.

--s.r.d.