On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:31:19PM +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 20:33, Dr William Bland wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Ok, I've got the hang of stepping through a document, and now I've
> > successfully made changes to its piecetable. The missing link is
> > re-displaying the document.
> >
> > The following code works, but I can only see the changes if I save and
> > re-load the document. Otherwise the display doesn't get updated.
> > Any hints gratefully received.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Bill.
> >
> > PS: Note that I added PT_BufIndex::changeBufIndex(), but it just does
> > what you would expect.
> >
>
> Please don't expect abiword to work like this. We go to great lengths
> stop this sort of direct manipulations of the piecetable.
>
> Use the accessor functions in Pd_Document.
Ok, I changed it to do everything using the Pd_Document functions and now
it works fine. I'm learning (slowly).
Thanks for your help.
Best wishes,
Bill.
