Re: need help in looping many times...

2012-01-24 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:17:41 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: right now, the user has to click and wait for gvim to spawn before he can type. how can i code this so that the editor pops up over and over *while waiting for the user to type.* if the user typed nothing, the program

Re: need help in looping many times...

2012-01-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/24/2012 07:27 AM, John Coppens wrote: Wouldn't it be easier to simply add an editor window to your program? Use for example, the GtkTextView widget. You won't have to spawn external editors, and always have the text available. You can even implement cut/copy/paste, re-use recent text,

Re: need help in looping many times...

2012-01-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:11:34AM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:11:34 -0700 From: Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com Subject: Re: need help in looping many times... To: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org On 01/24/2012 07:27 AM, John Coppens wrote: Wouldn't it be easier

need help in looping many times...

2012-01-23 Thread Gary Kline
thanks to a slew of you guys assistance, i have the beginnings of a gtk written in C. i'm into my 6th week of this and keep getting ideas from a few on this this. vbc.tgz is enclosed; find someplace to save it, untar and make the 'vbc' binary. the button i have a question about it labeled Run

Re: need help in looping many times...

2012-01-23 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/23/2012 07:17 PM, Gary Kline wrote: vbc.tgz is enclosed; find someplace to save it, untar and make the 'vbc' binary. Unfortunately the attachment seems to have been filtered out by the mailing list. Can you post it on our web site somewhere perhaps and post a link here?

Re: need help in looping many times...

2012-01-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 08:59:40PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:59:40 -0700 From: Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com To: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: need help in looping many times... On 01/23/2012 08:49 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 01/23/2012 07:17