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rahul.sp · Familiar Face Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 7

hi,
I have displayed some data on the text view.
When a user clicks the start of any line ,I want to read that line into a string variable. How do I do that??
Thanks.

Wolfgang · Familiar Face Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 37

Code: (C)

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gchar *get_clicked_string(GtkWidget *text_view)
{
GtkTextBuffer *buffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer(GTK_TEXT_VIEW(text_view));
GtkTextIter i1, it;
gchar *text;

gtk_text_buffer_get_iter_at_mark(buffer, &it, gtk_text_buffer_get_insert(buffer));

k = gtk_text_iter_get_line(&it);
gtk_text_buffer_get_iter_at_line(buffer, &it, k);
gtk_text_buffer_get_end_iter(buffer, &i1);
text = gtk_text_buffer_get_text(buffer, &it, &i1, FALSE);
for(i=0;text[i] && text[i]!='\n';i++);
text[i]=0;
return text;

}

And don't forget g_free_text(text) after all

rahul.sp · Familiar Face Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 7

hi,
Thanks. It works fine.

clinisbut · Familiar Face Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 19

I would like do the same thing, but instead of only get the line clicked, I need to go through all lines and get each of them. I'm completly lost using iterators

clinisbut · Familiar Face Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 19

Well, I solved my problem by getting all text and then "splitting" by '\n'.

But I have another "problem".
I need to compare every char from gtktextview with a serie of chars stored in memory.
I'm using gtk_text_buffer_get_text to retrieve all text. This returns a gchar.
But is gchar valid for utf-8 encoding?

Wolfgang · Familiar Face Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 37

gtk_text_buffer_get_text returns pointer to text buffer in utf-8 of course. GTK+ operates with utf-8 strings only, if I not mistake.

clinisbut · Familiar Face Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 19

yes now I see.
Every utf-8 character can be up to 6 bytes length.
How can I distinguish every character since strlen gives me the byte count of those strings.
Which functions should I use to handle uft-8 strings?

Edit: I think I found them, but confirm it please:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Unicode-Manipulation.html#g-utf8-strlen

Wolfgang · Familiar Face Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 37

Yes. It is exactly what you need!

clinisbut · Familiar Face Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 19

Thank you, I reading it right now.
This is the first time I need to deal with unicode and I find it a little confusing.
At first I thought that every unicode char were represented with an int, so I didn't understand why using a gchar didn't break my strings.

clinisbut · Familiar Face Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 19

Hello, I'm here again.
I'm sorry but I'm unable to read char by char from a utf-8 string with those functions.

I have a utf-8 string inside
gchar* stringWord

For example ('hello').
Well, I try to iterate through all chars with:

Code: (C++)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9	gchar* pos = stringWord; cout << "First char:" << pos[0] << endl; //Prints "h". OK cout << "GET CHAR:" << g_utf8_get_char( pos ) << endl; //prints "GET CHAR:104" pos = g_utf8_next_char( pos ); cout << "First char:" << pos[0] << endl; //Prints "e". OK cout << "GET CHAR:" << g_utf8_get_char( pos ) << endl; //prints "GET CHAR:111"

This works great, only cause every char is 1 byte length.
When I try to iterate a word like this: Интенз (cyrillic) every char is 2 bytes long, so

Code: (C++)
1 2 3	cout << "First char:" << pos[0] << endl;

Only prints first byte of char.
The problem I'm getting is that I'm not able to determine the length of each char and I can't found any function in reference chart that does this.
This is very dificult!
If I just print:

Code: (C++)
1 2 3	cout << "First char:" << pos << endl;

This prints from position where is pos to the end of string.
At least I found that g_utf8_next_char jumps correctly every char without matter of its length.

Wolfgang · Familiar Face Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 37

...
gunichar cur;
pos = g_utf8_get_next_char(pos);
cur = g_utf8_get_char_validated(pos, 6); // gets one symbol
g_print("%w", cur);
...

clinisbut · Familiar Face Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 19

gchar* pos = stringWord;

gunichar cur = g_utf8_get_char_validated( pos, 6 );
cout << "First char:" << pos[0] << endl;
g_print("%w", cur);

g_print() throws me a segmentation fault!

If I use cout to print 'cur' variable, I'm gettint the suppossed unicode value of that char, but looking for it at unicode site does not coincide with the value I'm getting.
For example, 'h' character returns me a 104 code, but as you can see at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf 'h' character has code 68 . Is my assumption correct?

Edit:Forget it, at unicode site's codes are in hex, and this function returns in decimal

Edit:
g_utf8_get_char( pos ) gives me same result as
g_utf8_get_char_validated( pos, 6 );

Wolfgang · Familiar Face Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 37

I don't wanna disappoint you, but... 114 = 0x68
try:

Code: (C)
1	g_print("%c", cur);

clinisbut · Familiar Face Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 19

yes yes, you're right (seems like i've edited my last post while you were writing yours).
I think I have all working now!
Thank you!