Christian Reis wrote:

>On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:52:27PM -0400, Gary Jaffe wrote:
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>>I am trying to emulate that behavior with pygtk using the GtkText widget.  Is 
>>this the best way to go about it?  I display several lines of text in a 
>>monospaced font.  When the user clicks on a line I plan to determine which 
>>line was selected and change the background of that line to yellow to make it 
>>look highlighted.  I will space fill the line with just the right number of 
>>spaces to make the whole line turn yellow.
>>    
>>
>
>Just as a quick suggestion, why not use a GtkCList for this, with a
>single column and a hidden column header? Oh, sure, you'd have to chop
>the text into a list of N-column lines (is 80 your goal?), but that's
>easy.
>  
>
Yep, a list widget is deffinitely the right choice here.  A single 
column clist is probably the best choice for use with gtk 1.2.  For 
people working with 2.0, they should of course be using GtkTreeView :)

James.

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