The sad thing about libvte is that it is not portable. And makes your software limited to unixes.
Some time ago i wanted to do a multiplatform software to easily control a server via ssh, and the most frustrating part was the unavailability of at least a VT100-terminal library for windows in gtk. 2009/3/7 Emmanuel Rodriguez <[email protected]>: > Take a look at libvte it's the Gtk widget used by gnome-terminal. It > can be embedded easily in any application. > > http://library.gnome.org/devel/vte/unstable/VteTerminal.html > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Dutta, Seemanta <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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? >> >> regards, >> Seemanta >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list >> > > > > -- > Emmanuel Rodriguez > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
