The thin red GtkTextView line...

["Freddie Unpenstein" <fredderic excite com>]

Greetings again...  Geeze I'm asking a lot today.  ;)

Back onto the GtkTextViews...  After the wonderful responces from my query re: drawing a line across a text 
view, I now have a reasonably simple piece of code to do it automagically, except that it only supports one 
line per GtkTreeView at a time.  So I've partially written a GObject to do it in a much more flexible 
fashion...

My plan MkI; create a GtkBufferThinRedLine, feeding it an iter anywhere on the line you want to mark, and 
viola!  Instant thin red line.  Next step was to make it a general solution for drawing lines across the page 
with variable colour, thickness, pattern, alignment within the line, etc...  Kind of tooltip-ish in internal 
makeup...

But, there's a little problem.  I have to tie it to the GtkTextView, not to the GtkTextBuffer.  It's not a 
big issue -- it's not too hard to add a "bind to view" command.  But while we're talking about it, I don't 
suppose anyone knows of a "connected to GtkTextView"-style signal so I can make the connection automatic, do 
they?


If anyone has any suggestions, let me know.  Otherwise I'll just carry on as I'm going...  :)


Fredderic

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