I actually tried to run down that path, but encountered the following problem. My text entry box is of class Gtk::Entry. The compiler that I am using (MSVS 2005) gives me an error when I try to use the get_editable_set_position() fn since it can't "convert parameter 1 from Gtk::Entry *' to 'GtkEditable *'".
I can't find a member function similar to get_editable_set_position() that belongs to the Gtk::Entry class. Like you said, it is not documented anyway. Is there a way to type cast the GtK::Entry into a GtkEditable type? Or is there a way to find a similar function that will operate on a Gtk::Entry type? Sorry for my confusion, I am pretty new to GTK and Gtkmm. Thanks for your help! Michael "Jonathon Jongsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/21/2007 10:06 AM To "Michael Fasolino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc [email protected] Subject Re: Text Entry Box - text alignment On 2/21/07, Michael Fasolino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am currently porting an existing tool to be platform independent, so in order to keep the same look and feel, I would like to use a Text Entry box. If it ends up that I can't do what needs to be done with the text box, than I will switch over to the FileChooserButton. Also, after searching for a while to find a way to align the text (when it is longer than the text entry can display) and not being able to find anything in gtkmm, I am kind of curious to hear if there is solution I am missing:) > > Thank you, > > Michael I've never tried to do this, so this is just a guess. Could you do what you want simply by setting the cursor position to the end of the text entry box? I think there's a set_position() function and passing a value of -1 means to place the cursor at the end (It appears that this function isn't documented in gtkmm, but that's what the GTK+ docs say [1]). I believe the default behavior of a GtkEntry is to 'scroll' to show the cursor position, so this might do what you want. But I can't really test out my theory right now. [1] http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkEditable.html#gtk-editable-set-position -- jonner
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