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angel face · Familiar Face Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 15

Hey guys.

Here's my problemo!...

Ive opened a text file and the contents is display in a textview.
Now I want to read what is in the textview into a character array (GArray). Does anybody know how to do this?

Really appreciate it :)

Micah Carrick · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject:

Well, I never actually use GArray, however, the string of text in the textview is a character array already. This is a fundamental concept of C. It is an array of single char values terminated by NULL (\0). Therefore, you can loop through it with a while or for loop and add each character to your GArray.

angel face · Familiar Face Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 15

I cant figure out how to directly access the array. I am using a pointer. No matter what i try i cant seem to access it. I dont know what im missing. Its quite annoying...any ideas?

gchar *text;

gtk_text_buffer_get_selection_bounds (buffer1, &start, &end);
text = gtk_text_buffer_get_text (buffer1, &start, &end, FALSE);

gtk_text_buffer_set_text (buffer2, text, -1);