Two applications that do something very similar based on the GtkTextView
widget are:

   - GemTcl by myself (see http://gemshell.sf.net)
   - The Python console in Gimp.

You need to overload lots of bindings to get it to behave as a terminal.
Just look at the source to get the idea.

Regards,
Dov

2009/3/7 Vivien Malerba <[email protected]>

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> 2009/3/7 Dutta, Seemanta <[email protected]>
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>>
>> 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?
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> 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
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> Basically I had to tag some parts of the text as read-only along with some
> scrolling...
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> Vivien
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