Re: FYI: GtkText current design issues
- From: "Shawn T . Amundson" <amundson eventloop com>
- To: gtk-devel-list redhat com
- Cc: Miguel de Icaza <miguel gnu org>, hp redhat com, recipient list not shown: ;;
- Subject: Re: FYI: GtkText current design issues
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 10:53:51 -0600
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 03:22:54PM -0800, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
> > Yep. It would not be very hard to actually port the Tk Text widget to
> > Gtk. I believe it is worth doing.
>
> I'm looking at it now. Unlike Nedit, Emacs, GtkText, the Java
> Swing text editor, et.al. it does not use a gapped text buffer at all.
> It holds everything in a BTree (where 'everything' includes text, lines,
> and property marks).
>
> If I can understand this widget, I may re-focus my efforts into
> porting it to Gtk+ and abandon the "improved GtkText" idea. The source is
> very clean and well-commented.
>
>
> --Derek
>
When we ported Tk's Packer to GTK+, we found that to be extremely
easy. The Text widget sounds much harder to me, but would be
much more useful than Packer has been. ;-)
-Shawn
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