Re: Getting text out of a GtkTextView

[Seth Remington <sremington@saberlogic.com>]

You've created two pointers to a GtkTextIter, but they don't point to a 
valid GtkTextIter structure in memory. Here's what you probably meant to 
do...

void insertCustomer( GtkWidget	*customers )
{
	GtkTextBuffer	*specialBuffer;
	GtkTextView		*specialView;
	GtkTextIter		start;
	GtkTextIter		end;
	gchar*			*specialText;

   specialView = lookup_widget(customers, "cust_instructions");
	specialBuffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer(specialView);
	gtk_text_buffer_get_bounds(specialBuffer, &start, &end);
	specialText = gtk_text_buffer_get_text(specialBuffer, &start, &end, FALSE);
	g_print("Special Text: %s \n",specialText);
}

- Seth

Carl B. Constantine wrote:

> I have a GtkTextView in one of my application windows; mainly because a
> GtkEntry is only single width and I want text wrapping and so forth.
>
> Anyway, I'm trying to get the text from the GtkTextView but only end up
> with 'null' when I try to print it. Here is a code snipped:
>
> void insertCustomer( GtkWidget	*customers )
> {
> 	GtkTextBuffer	*specialBuffer;
> 	GtkTextView		*specialView;
> 	GtkTextIter		*start;
> 	GtkTextIter		*end;
> 	gchar*			*specialText;
>
>    specialView = lookup_widget(customers, "cust_instructions");
> 	specialBuffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer(specialView);
> 	gtk_text_buffer_get_bounds(specialBuffer, start, end);
> 	specialText = gtk_text_buffer_get_text(specialBuffer, start, end, FALSE);
> 	g_print("Special Text: %s \n",specialText);
> }
>
> I actually want to be able to insert that text into a database field but
> it's not working.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
>  

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