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]> > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > >
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