Re: Large strings in GtkTextView

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

Micah Carrick wrote:
> Andrew Sobala wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I just tried to load a ~200 kb string into GtkTextView, and there are 
> > bugs in the viewing of the string. The most noticeable is that when 
> > you try to scroll, the text disappears and/or overlaps.
> >
> > Is GtkTextView completely unsuitable for viewing large amounts of 
> > text? Is there an alternative?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Andrew
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> I've loaded apache logs into a GtkTextView that were over 50 megs and 
> had no trouble at all. What is the code you're using to load the textview?

Hmm, gtk_text_view_new, gtk_text_buffer_new, gtk_text_buffer_set_text, 
gtk_text_view_set_buffer. The code's a bit scattered.

I should have mentioned, this is one long line of text (there are no 
linebreaks) which is probably the reason. I can whip up a testcase 
tomorrow (if that's actually useful), but I think you'll reproduce it by 
simply trying to load 200k of text into a single line.

--
Andrew