Re: Why GtkTextIter doesn't provide a function to return its byte index? How to retrieve it?

[Gang Chen <gang chen cn gmail com>]

gtk-text-get-offset() returns the character offset, not byte indexes.

2011/8/10 Ian Liu Rodrigues <ian liu88 gmail com>:
> gtk_text_iter_get_offset -
> http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/stable/GtkTextIter.html#gtk-text-iter-get-offset
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> Ian L.
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> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Gang Chen <gang chen cn gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My application has its own text buffer which uses byte indexes to
>> index the text. I create a GtkTextBuffer as a mirror of the text
>> buffer in order to display the text in a GtkTextView. I need to
>> retrieve the byte index of a GtkTextIter but found no such function
>> exists. How to?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gang
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