Re: text tag table

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <ekalin bol com br>]

ashley maher wrote:

> G'day,
>
> In the references to the text widget of the GTK API it says to refer to
> the gtk-demo for examples.
>
> These examples are very good. Using the Multiple Views example I can
> save a gtk text buffer to, and retrieve, from a text file.
>
> I can change the look and feel using tags. All modified from the example
> code.
>
> However I can't find anywhere example code to show how to maintain
> persistence between running the programme. How do you save a tag table
> to a file so after you formatted a block of text this formatting is
> available next time? Or how is this done. Googling has not got me very
> far. Is there such code? I've not found it in the gtk-demo code, or
> anywhere else.
>
>  
GtkTextView does not have that feature built-in. You'll need to write
the code to do that yourself, going through the textview, detecting
which tags it has, and writing this and the attributes of the tags.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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