Re: GtkEditable and GtkTextView

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 18 Oct 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Owen just reminded me why we didn't reimplement GtkText in terms of
> TextView, and the same thing applies to GtkEditable.
> 
> The problem is that the GtkEditable interface includes three signals:
> changed, insert_text, and delete_text. changed works fine, you just
> propagate changed from the buffer to GtkEditable. The problem is
> insert_text and delete_text; these are used for filtering. i.e. their
> default handler has to actually insert the text or delete the text.
> To get this to work right, while keeping GtkTextBuffer working right,
> and allowing multiple views on GtkTextBuffer, is pretty much
> impossible as far as we can tell.

hm, could you elaborate a bit?
i'm not sure i understand the problem and i have to admit at this point
i'm not even sure anymore which of the things you're talking about is
an object, an interface, an aggregate object.

> 
> Havoc
> 

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ciaoTJ