Re: [gtkmm] "Autoscrolling" TextView

[Morten Brix Pedersen <morten mbrix dk>]

Den 18/11-2003, kl. 2:52, skrev Christer Palm:

> Hi!
>
> Does anyone have a smart way to make a scrolled TextView scroll along 
> as text is inserted - if, and only if the TextView is showing the 
> bottom part of the buffer?
> I can't find an elegant way to determine whether the TextView is "at 
> the bottom" of the buffer, and to handle the situation when resizing 
> an autowrap TextView causes the last line to split, which in turn 
> causes it to drop out of the bottom position.
I implemented this a long time ago in my LostIRC application, which can 
be found at http://lostirc.sourceforge.net/. You should see the 
onScroll and onResize functions in src/gtkmm/TextWidget.cpp.
Hope that helps.

 - Morten.