* Carl B. Constantine (duckwing@duckwing.ca) wrote: > > The following link tells you how to get the contents of the > > entire text widget as a string: > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-question-index.html#id2850623 > > No it's not. that url doesn't resolve (at least as far as the #id tag > goes). Additionally, your suggestion doesn't work either... Actually, I *did* find it on that page, way down but clicking the link didn't put me in the correct spot. > > buffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (text_view)); > > gtk_text_buffer_get_bounds (buffer, &start, &end); > > text = gtk_text_iter_get_text (&start, &end); > > ...use text... > > g_free (text); > > In both of these instances I get the following error: Never mind, I found my problem. I had declared start and end as *GtkTextIter instead of just GtkTextIter. That pointer makes all the difference in the world ;-) -- .''`. Carl B. Constantine : :' : duckwing@duckwing.ca `. `' GnuPG: 135F FC30 7A02 B0EB 61DB 34E3 3AF1 DC6C 9F7A 3FF8 `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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