Re: How can I enable the horizontal scroll-bar in a text widget.

[Andrew Schretter <schrett math duke edu>]

The short answer is you can't.  The Gtk Text widget does not support a
horizontal scrollbar.

The long answer is that you have to manage the scrollbars yourself.  I have
written a 50 line key press processing routine that manually manages both
the vertical and horizontal scrollbar of a text widget (I haven't been able
to make it work where the vertical is managed by the text widget and the
horizontal by my code).  It is ugly and a horrible hack, it flickers, but
it works.

If you are interested, I'll email a small test app with a Gtk Text window with
vertical and horizontal scrollbars to you directly, but take note that it will
probably take a bit of effort to integrate into any code you currently have.

Andrew

> I ripped some code from the up-to-date Perl/Gtk+ widget demo. I have a
> text widget with a vertical scroll-bar and a horizontal one nearby. The
> vertical one works perfectly, but I cannot get the horizontal one to do
> anything. It doesn't seem to move the window either way.
>
> How can I get it to move the text left and right?
>
> I am attaching the sample code to this message.
>
> Regards,
>
>       Shlomi Fish

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Andrew Schretter
Systems Programmer, Duke University
Dept. of Mathematics (919) 660-2866