In an application I'm making I would like to have a GtkTextView with most of its text as non-editable (most of the text is generated automatically by other means than the user writing it). However, there are certain places here and there where the text should be editable by the user. The GtkTextTag seems perfect for this purpose: I can set the GtkTextView as non-editable and add proper GtkTextTags with the "editable" property set in the places I want the user to be able to edit. However, there's one big problem with this: The start tag has right gravity and the end tag has left gravity. This means that if the user edits the beginning or the end of the editable part, his text will end up as non-editable (because if he writes a character eg. at the beginning of the editable part, the start tag will end up at the right of this character and the written character will thus end up outside the tags and thus become non-editable). It also means that if the user completely deletes the text in the editable part, he will be completely unable to add any text there anymore (due to the gravity of the tags, if there's no text between them, it's impossible to add any text there). I can't find any way of defining the gravity of GtkTextTags (as you can do with GtkTextMarks). Any ideas? Perhaps what I want to achieve could be better done in a completely different way? The text is very dynamic so having fixed-sized field widgets is not an option. Also it should be possible for the user to write text which extends to several lines (ie. he should be able to type newlines as well) in the editable parts. The editable parts are not independent lines in the text but parts of existing non-editable lines. Doing the opposite, that is, marking all non-editable text with non-editable tags and leaving the editable parts untagged is not a viable solution. Due to how I generate the text it's very difficult to join uneditable parts so that they all end up inside the same pair of tags (if I wouldn't join them, the user would be able to add text between the tags in places I don't want to allow it). Also, doing it this way would allow the user to add text at the very beginning and end of the text buffer, which is not what I want. Btw, a second question: How do you set the default text properties (eg. font) of a GtkTextView? (I would want the non-editable parts to have a certain style, but I can't seem to find any way of setting this.) - Juha Nieminen _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
