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

["Vladimir V. Markevich" <markj LinS ospu odessa ua>]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Andrew Schretter wrote:

> 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.

I'm very interested, Please email

> Andrew

Regards, Vladimir