Re: Designing a 'console' with GtkTextViewer

[Emmanuel Rodriguez <emmanuel rodriguez gmail com>]

Take a look at libvte it's the Gtk widget used by gnome-terminal. It
can be embedded easily in any application.

http://library.gnome.org/devel/vte/unstable/VteTerminal.html

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Dutta, Seemanta <seemanta qualcomm com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I want to design a console based interface to my application. The console would enable the user to manually give commands to my application. Something akin to the python console that you get in RhythmBox.
>
> I am planning to use GtkTextViewer widget for this. My main requirement for the console is that It should not allow the user to 'scroll-back' and edit past commands, which would be very inconsistent. In other words it should behave just like a terminal command line, allowing line editing for the current line only. I am not thinking of readline support right now but that can be added later as an enhancement.
>
> My question: Is that possible in GtkTextViewer? I always thought that I can set the entire widget as editable or non editable. But if I set it as editable, then I don't want the user to be able to scroll up and fiddle with text that is present above.
>
> Can anyone please advise?
>
> regards,
> Seemanta
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