Hi Ken,
I am not sure if event-after would be a clean approach.
However , following way for getting notified for any event which results in
cursor-position change for text buffer will be useful. This will be called
only if the cursor-position property is updated.
g_signal_connect (buffer, "notify::cursor-position",
G_CALLBACK (gtk_text_view_notify_cursor_position),
view);
/*callback method*/
void
gtk_text_view_notify_cursor_position(GtkTextBuffer *buffer, GParamSpec
*pspec,gpointer user_data)
{
/*calculate cursor position using insert mark*/
....
}
regards ,
Sanny
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Ken Resander <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sanny,
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Both your suggestions work fine for getting current cursor position by
> mouse clicks.
>
> I am collecting the key values via key-press-event, but so does the text
> default handler, so the problem is still present for key navigation.
> However, I could make it work by using the key-release event instead. Lucky!
>
> My fumbles also took me to the mark-set signal of GtkTextBuffer. This
> signal is emitted when text marks change. It works for both mouse and
> keyboard. However, a single mouse click produces four events, for example
> the following when I click keyword 'while':
>
> findtag ret 28 iter 153571352 mark insert
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 29 iter 153572264 mark selection_bound
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 30 iter 153580256 mark (null)
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 31 iter 153580720 mark (null)
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
>
> The first insert mark is the one I want so I can filter out the others. The
> last two are unnamed and I don't know what they are.
>
> However, when I drag the mouse from letter h to letter l in the 'while'
> keyword I get the following avalanche of about 70 events:
>
> findtag ret 32 iter 153571408 mark insert
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 33 iter 153571352 mark selection_bound
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 34 iter 153576792 mark (null)
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 35 iter 152410200 mark (null)
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 36 iter 153571464 mark insert
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 37 iter 153571872 mark (null)
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 38 iter 153572688 mark (null)
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 39 iter 153577664 mark (null)
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 40 iter 153573152 mark (null)
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 41 iter 153578128 mark insert
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 42 iter 153576976 mark (null)
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 43 iter 153580552 mark insert
> markset MTOKEN Keyword(4)
> findtag ret 44 iter 152410624 mark (null)
> .....
>
> and when I resize the screen I get hundreds of events for a 10-line test
> text. For a normal program there would many thousands of these unwanted
> events. The mark-set would work, but I feel uneasy about it.
>
> I also discovered and tried the GtkWidget signal event-efter. It worked.
>
> Initialise:
> [code]
> g_signal_connect ( G_OBJECT (e) , "event-after" ,
> G_CALLBACK (eventaftercb) , buf ) ;
> [/code]
>
> with callback:
> [code]
> static gboolean eventaftercb (GtkWidget * w, GdkEvent * ev, gpointer
> user_data )
> {
> if ( (ev->type == GDK_BUTTON_PRESS) )
> {
> printf ( "%d BTNpress\n" , (int)ev->type ) ;
> return buttonpresscb ( w, (GdkEventButton *)ev , (char *)user_data )
> ;
> }
> else if ( (ev->type == GDK_KEY_PRESS) )
> {
> printf ( "%d keyPress\n" , (int)ev->type ) ;
> return keypresscb ( w, (GdkEventKey *)ev , (char *)user_data ) ;
> }
> return true ;
> }
> [/code]
>
> Need to test all this a bit more, but as of now, I prefer the event-after
> method.
>
> Would be grateful for comments.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
>
> --- On *Mon, 1/3/10, Sanny Chawla <[email protected]>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Sanny Chawla <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Problem identifying GtkTextTags for syntax highlighting
> To: "Ken Resander" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, 1 March, 2010, 2:22 AM
>
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> The cursor value which your code is calculating from insert mark is getting
> updated in button-release-event. So the syntax tokens can be identified in
> button-release-event callback.
>
> You can even try using below method to find the cursor position in
> button-press-event itself.
> 1. Convert the x,y coordinates received in the button-press-event to buffer
> coordindates.
> 2. Calculate the GtkTextIter from the buffer coordinates.
>
> eg :
> /* Button press callback */
> {
> gtk_text_view_window_to_buffer_coords(text_view,
> gtk_text_view_get_window_type (GTK_TEXT_VIEW(text_view),
> event->window),event->x, event->y, &x, &y);
> gtk_text_view_get_iter_at_location (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (text_view), &curr,
> x, y);
>
> /* Identify if curr iter is associated with syntax token tag array */
> ...
> ...
> }
>
> regards ,
> Sanny
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Ken Resander
> <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
>> I am trying to do a bit of syntax highlighting. I am using
>> gtk_text_buffer_create_tag and gtk_text_buffer_insert_with_tags to
>> syntax-highlight the intial text (from file). That works fine.
>>
>> The program needs to identify existing syntax tokens in order to do
>> appropriate syntax checking should the user decide to go back and amend them
>> and I am having problems with this.
>>
>>
>> Find a token-tag from current position:
>> [code]
>> static int findtagfromcursor ( GtkTextBuffer * buf )
>> {
>> GtkTextMark * mark = gtk_text_buffer_get_insert (buf);
>> GtkTextIter curiter ;
>> gtk_text_buffer_get_iter_at_mark (buf, &curiter, mark);
>> int k = 0 ;
>> while ( k < NUMTOKENS )
>> {
>> if ( gtk_text_iter_has_tag ( &curiter , tags [ k ] ) )
>> {
>> return k ;
>> }
>> k++ ;
>> }
>> return -1 ;
>> }
>> [/code]
>>
>> The tags array is set by calls to gtk_text_buffer_create_tag when the text
>> is read in.
>>
>> Initialisation:
>> [code]
>> GtkWidget * e = gtk_text_view_new ( ) ;
>> GtkTextBuffer * buf = gtk_text_view_get_buffer (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (e));
>> gtk_text_view_set_editable ( (GtkTextView *)e , true ) ;
>> g_signal_connect_after ( G_OBJECT (e) , "button-press-event" ,
>> G_CALLBACK (buttonpresscb) , buf ) ;
>> [/code]
>>
>> Skeleton callback:
>> [code]
>> static gboolean buttonpresscb ( GtkWidget * w, GdkEventButton *event, char
>> * data )
>> {
>> GtkTextBuffer * buf = (GtkTextBuffer *)data ;
>> int tokenix = findtagfromcursor ( buf ) ;
>> if ( tokenix != -1 )
>> {
>> printf ( "MTOKEN %s(%d): \n" tokenlkup [ tokenix ] , tokenix ) ;
>> }
>> else
>> {
>> printf ( "MTOKEN %d: \n" , tokenix ) ;
>> }
>> return false;
>> }
>> [/code]
>>
>> Textview text:
>> text text ... TOKEN2TEXT text text... TOKEN0TEXT text text ... TOKEN1TEXT
>>
>>
>> 'text text...' is unadorned text.
>> TOKEN0TEXT, TOKEN1TEXT, TOKEN2TEXT ... are categories of text associated
>> with different visual attributes. The program identifies these with numbers
>> 0,1,2 internally. When the user clicks on a token the program needs to
>> identify the token.
>>
>> When I click TOKEN2TEXT the callback reports no-token (-1). Then when I
>> click TOKEN0TEXT it reports the TOKEN2TEXT (2) and when I click TOKEN1TEXT
>> it reports TOKEN0TEXT (0) and so on.
>>
>> I thought this is because buttonpresscb is called before the text handler
>> that changes the current text position to the mouse-click position, so I
>> changed the connect call to g_signal_connect_after ( G_OBJECT (e) , "but...
>> ).
>>
>> That did not work. I received no buttonpress events at all.
>>
>> Why? I am totally stuck, so would be most grateful for advice.
>>
>>
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