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[gtk-list] Re: GTK text widget (was Re: Proposal for a new project)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Wed May 14 10:43:10 1997
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 10:42:09 -0400
From: Otto Hammersmith <otto@redhat.com>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199705132033.PAA20256@guinness.cs.umn.edu>; from Shawn T Amundson on Tue, May 13, 1997 at 03:33:09PM -0500
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On Tue, May 13, 1997 at 03:33:09PM -0500, Shawn T Amundson wrote:
> Words Of Otto Hammersmith:
> >
> >I've done some thinking... I wonder if it'd be useful to have two text
> >widgets. One exteremely simple one with just plain text, and a second
> >for intense things that would allow embedding widgets and such. I
> >suspect the former would be useful for small apps that don't need the
> >power of the later.
>
> I was thinking this too. But if the complex text widget, when used only
> with text, is no larger than the extremely simple one, then what's the
> point? Would it take so much extra room in the struct to have the
> embedding done?
Very true, if it doesn't save any memory or resources, there's no
reason for it... but I suspect it will turn out to be otherwise.
> >One comment, though... it should be a "rich text" widget, not and
> >"HTML widget". I don't think HTML parsing code really belongs in the
> >widget proper. I see something along the lines of the relationship
> >between gtk_rc_parse stuff and GtkStyle objects.
>
> I don't really want to have to submit any layout language when
> working with the widget. Except perhaps the normal packing code,
> or how you control such things in TK. Widgets should take up the
> same space as a character and act accordingly. You should be able
> to insert by knowing the row and column of the text, or delete, etc.
>
> Then a harder question: What about doing tags like in TK? Perhaps
> an easy way to do links in widgets based off the text widgets, like
> the HTML widget.
I think I'm being misunderstood. I didn't mean "rich text" as in
RTF... I just meant a widget capable of displaying that kind of text.
As for commenting on how Tk does things... I'm not familiar with Tk,
so someone will have to fill me in a bit. :)
--
-Otto.
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