On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:10:13PM +0200, Riccardo Galli wrote:
> Hello world.
>
> I'm trying to insert characters in a textview, in a position different from the one
> where's the cursor.
>
> I'm alwais getting this warning:
> Gtk-WARNING **: Invalid text buffer iterator: either the iterator is uninitialized,
> or the characters/pixbufs/widgets in the buffer have been modified since the
> iterator was created.[...]
>
This warning is the clue. Iterators don't last forever. My guess is that you
have some way modified the buffer since textIter was created. But I cannot tell
without the code that calls on_insert_text.
> This a simple example code, of a method called on insert_text event .
> When 6 characters are typed,it tries to put an 'X' in the second cursor position,
> and then to put the cursor where it was before.
>
>
> def on_insert_text(self,buffer,textIter,char,*args):
> buffer.disconnect(self.signal_id)
> if textIter.get_chars_in_line()==6 :
> newIter=buffer.get_iter_at_offset(2)
> buffer.insert(newIter,'X')
> buffer.place_cursor(buffer.get_end_iter())
> self.signal_id=buffer.connect('insert-text',self.on_insert_text)
>
> I understand from the warning that I should use marks, but I don't know how.
>
> Thanks for help,
> Riccardo
>
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