Re: release soon? (fwd)

[Mikael Hermansson <mikeh bahnhof se>]

I am the author of GtkExText (its not in any part of the GTK+ dist :)

* Vertical/horizontal scrolling
* Better property/higlight API 
* Goto line/column
* Search in text
* and lots more

There is no line wrap support and there is no plans to implement it.
(if no other implements it ofcource :-)

IMHO its better to implement a function like 
gtk_extext_line_set_max(gint maxline) 
this means extext inserts '/n' character if a line is to long.

Another thing GtkExText has better Property/Higlight API support
this means it is possible to click on a textsegment to execute a html link/or what else.

The only problem I see is that you cannot display pictures directly in the widget.

But again gtkextext has possibilities to click on text segment to execute another application or what else you want...

If someone is intrested I could do a special test version for balsa.
else checkout http://www.bahnhof.se/~mikeh/linux_software

Greats

MikeH


On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:05:05 David Pickens wrote:
> I forgot to CC the list the first time around, and I didn't realize that
> Mike was talking about /incoming/ mail.  But, as far as mail composition
> is concerned:
> 
> 
> It's odd that you should mention this;  I just wrote an email to Owen
> Taylor who seems to be the author most responsible for GtkText.  I asked
> if this (ie intuitive curson movement between lines) would be a part of
> GtkText anytime soon, and the short answer is no.  He said that he's going
> to have to do a re-write of GtkText to include internationalization
> support, etc..  He recommended looking at GtkExText to see if this would
> do what we want.  (I haven't had a chance to do this yet.)
> 
> Has anyone worked with GtkExText, and do you know what its default
> behavior is for movement between displayed lines (rather than new-line
> terminated rows)?
> 
> David
> 
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Mike Palczewski wrote:
> 
> > How hard would it to implement word wrap and break lines on incoming e-mail. 
> > The biggest gripe everyone has with balsa is the lack of wordwrap.  This is 
> > according to all the reviews I have read. It would be nice to get this done
> > before the new version.
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:36:39 David Pickens wrote:
> > > 
> > > This sounds like a great idea to me.  If (and only if) the multi-threaded
> > > stuff for retrieving messages has been working OK for people I'd like to
> > > do the same for sending mail before a new version goes out.  (As strange
> > > as it sounds, waiting for these actions to finish before moving on to
> > > something else can greatly/disproportionately affect someone's perceptions
> > > about how 'fast,' or useful, a program is.)
> > > 
> > > Hector, should I wait for you to do more work on the SMTP code?
> > > 
> > > I haven't done much with the configuration routines -- If someone could
> > > put in that dropdown box for displaying the progress window I'd be happy
> > > to use the variable to display-and-leave / display-and-close-on-completion
> > > / disable the progress dialog.
> > > 
> > > David
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Stuart Parmenter wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi everyone.  As you *all* know (grin), it has been quite a while
> > > > since a new version of Balsa has been released.  I think it would be
> > > > good to get out a new version out sometime soon.  I want to look over
> > > > the current TODO list(s) and see what everyone thinks is needed to get
> > > > v0.5 out the door.  There has been lots of great work in the last few
> > > > weeks (thanks guys!) cleaning up things.  Let me know what you think.  
> > > > I feel that it's getting close to being ready for a new release, so
> > > > keep up the good work everyone!
> > > > 
> > > > Stuart
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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