textview buffer

atta · **Joined:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:05 pm **Posts:** 3

How do I load the data from a GTK Textview into a buffer? ( char*, for writing file)

openldev · **Posted:** Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:05 pm

The text is stored in a text buffer, so you first retrieve the text view's GtkTextBuffer. Then, you get iterators pointing to the beginning and the end of the buffer, which are used as bounds when retrieving the text.

Code:

GtkTextBuffer *buffer;
GtkTextIter start, end;
gchar *text;

buffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (textview));
gtk_text_buffer_get_start_iter (buffer, &start);
gtk_text_buffer_get_start_iter (buffer, &end);
text = gtk_text_buffer_get_text (buffer, &start, &end, FALSE);

atta · **Joined:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:05 pm **Posts:** 3

How do I get the total size of the text buffer?
I want to write the edited buffer into a file;

openldev · **Posted:** Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:42 pm

Code:

#include <string.h>
int length = strlen (text);

atta · **Joined:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:05 pm **Posts:** 3

Ah, then I did it the right way :) I thought there was a bug, but there doesn't seem to be..
Thanks for the help!

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