Re: [Gtk2hs-users] Creating text tags

[Axel S. <Axe...@in...>]

Hi José et al.,

yes, we might have missed some functions. By all means, implement them  
(with docs) and submit a patch. We're happy to review and apply patches!

Cheers,
Axel

On 25.10.2011, at 15:46, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 25/10/11 13:25, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am going to add my first TextView widget to my application, but I  
>> am
>> having difficulties because I cannot find the functions mentioned in
>> tutorials and documenetation.
>>
>> I want to insert a tagged text to a text buffer. The Gtk+  
>> documentation
>> talks about using the C functions gtk_text_buffer_create_tag and
>> gtk_text_buffer_insert_with_tags, but I am not findind any similar
>> functions in gtk2hs.
>
> Not sure if this is "the best way" (certainly my coding style could  
> use
> improvement), but I managed to do something like this a while ago:
>
> https://gitorious.org/maximus/gulcii/blobs/master/src/gulcii.hs#line83
> creating a text tag table and a couple of buffers
>
> https://gitorious.org/maximus/gulcii/blobs/master/src/ 
> gulcii.hs#line146
> inserting text into a buffer, tagging it then coping to the main  
> buffer
>
> There is also some code in there to scroll to the end marker of the
> buffer each time text is inserted.
>
> Example videos (the first one was before using tags iirc):
> http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org/v/gulcii/
>
>
> Claude
>
>>
>>> From the Graphics.UI.Gtk.Multiline.TextTag module documentation one
>> can read:
>>
>>    Graphics.UI.Gtk.Multiline.TextBuffer.textBufferCreateTag
>>    is the best way to create tags.
>>
>> but textBufferCreateTag is not documented on the documentation for
>> Graphics.UI.Gtk.Multiline.TextBuffer.
>>
>> Are these missing functions going into gtk2hs?
>>
>> It would be nice if there were any example of how to use TextView  
>> in the
>> demos.
>>
>> Romildo
>
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