[Glade-users] Modifer keys and text view

[tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Peter Keller <psilord at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:34:38PM -0400, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> > have you tried hitting shft-insert with the textview in focus
> > and text in your clipboard ?
>
> So how is insert-at-cursor different from the pasting from clipboard
> signals? I thought insert at cursor meant the cooked letter you typed
> in where ever the cursor happened to be.

Well, the paste clipboard signals seem more like notifications than
implementations,
but thats just at a glance - my guess is that insert-at-cursor has to do with
pasting the clipboard at the cursor position, I've not used these
signals before.

> I wish there was a tutorial to simply show how to build a simple notepad
> like editor using glade-3. I guess, if I can get this simple thing I
> want to do working, I'll write one up.
>
> The information available for GTK is both vast and somewhat disconnected... :(

Have you looked at gtk-demo and the examples directory in the gtk+ tree ?

Cheers,
                     -Tristan