2009/3/7 Dutta, Seemanta <[email protected]> > > Hi, > I want to design a console based interface to my application. The console > would enable the user to manually give commands to my application. Something > akin to the python console that you get in RhythmBox. > > I am planning to use GtkTextViewer widget for this. My main requirement for > the console is that It should not allow the user to 'scroll-back' and edit > past commands, which would be very inconsistent. In other words it should > behave just like a terminal command line, allowing line editing for the > current line only. I am not thinking of readline support right now but that > can be added later as an enhancement. > > My question: Is that possible in GtkTextViewer? I always thought that I can > set the entire widget as editable or non editable. But if I set it as > editable, then I don't want the user to be able to scroll up and fiddle with > text that is present above. > > Can anyone please advise?
I had written something similar for Gnome-DB a while back, have a look at it: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libgnomedb/trunk/libgnomedb-extra/gnome-db-sql-console.c?revision=1747&view=markup Basically I had to tag some parts of the text as read-only along with some scrolling... Vivien
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