Cursor in an editor gadget

Armoured · Post by **Armoured** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:07 am

Hi

Is possible to read and to set the position of the cursor in one editor gadget?
If yes how?

Thanks

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:14 am

Reply deleted. Mine was Windows based

Armoured · Post by **Armoured** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:26 am

blueznl wrote:Reply deleted. Mine was Windows based

To set the cursor position for Linux I have found this: http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... ght=cursor

But to read the cursor position?

dhouston · Post by **dhouston** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:01 pm

Would you mind posting a working example? I tried the code in that post and it does not work for me.

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  IO = EditorGadget(#PB_Any, 6, 207, 540, 260 , #PB_Editor_ReadOnly)
   GadgetToolTip(IO, "Input/Output Window")
   ;remove from compiled version
   For k=0 To 50
     AddGadgetItem(IO, -1, "15:20:36 <T1 This is only an example n° "+Str(k))
   Next
  ;'does not work
  GadgetID = GadgetID(IO)
  length = gtk_text_get_length_(GadgetID)  ;returns 0
  gtk_editable_set_position_(GadgetID, length)  ;does nothing

Armoured · Post by **Armoured** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:19 pm

Hi
I'm sorry but my link is wrong for this type of gadget.
I think the solution is to use "gtk_text_buffer_place_cursor" but I need an example of code.

Armoured · Post by **Armoured** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:13 pm

I need help with this:

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     buffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer_(GadgetID(#Gadget_Form1_Editor1))
     gtk_text_buffer_place_cursor_(buffer,?)

what is the second parameter of the "gtk_text_buffer_place_cursor"?

hardfalcon · Post by **hardfalcon** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:09 pm

gtk_editable_get_position_()

dhouston · Post by **dhouston** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:52 pm

Armoured wrote:what is the second parameter of the "gtk_text_buffer_place_cursor"?

It's a pointer so it should be the sum of the buffer pointer plus the length of the text but I do not know how to get the length of the text in the buffer.