GtkTextView

GtkTextView

Functions

GtkWidget * gtk_text_view_new ()
GtkWidget * gtk_text_view_new_with_buffer ()
void gtk_text_view_set_buffer ()
GtkTextBuffer * gtk_text_view_get_buffer ()
void gtk_text_view_scroll_to_mark ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_scroll_to_iter ()
void gtk_text_view_scroll_mark_onscreen ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_move_mark_onscreen ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_place_cursor_onscreen ()
void gtk_text_view_get_visible_rect ()
void gtk_text_view_get_iter_location ()
void gtk_text_view_get_line_at_y ()
void gtk_text_view_get_line_yrange ()
void gtk_text_view_get_iter_at_location ()
void gtk_text_view_get_iter_at_position ()
void gtk_text_view_buffer_to_window_coords ()
void gtk_text_view_window_to_buffer_coords ()
GdkWindow * gtk_text_view_get_window ()
GtkTextWindowType gtk_text_view_get_window_type ()
void gtk_text_view_set_border_window_size ()
gint gtk_text_view_get_border_window_size ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_forward_display_line ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_backward_display_line ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_forward_display_line_end ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_backward_display_line_start ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_starts_display_line ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_move_visually ()
void gtk_text_view_add_child_at_anchor ()
GtkTextChildAnchor * gtk_text_child_anchor_new ()
GList * gtk_text_child_anchor_get_widgets ()
gboolean gtk_text_child_anchor_get_deleted ()
void gtk_text_view_add_child_in_window ()
void gtk_text_view_move_child ()
void gtk_text_view_set_wrap_mode ()
GtkWrapMode gtk_text_view_get_wrap_mode ()
void gtk_text_view_set_editable ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_get_editable ()
void gtk_text_view_set_cursor_visible ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_get_cursor_visible ()
void gtk_text_view_set_overwrite ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_get_overwrite ()
void gtk_text_view_set_pixels_above_lines ()
gint gtk_text_view_get_pixels_above_lines ()
void gtk_text_view_set_pixels_below_lines ()
gint gtk_text_view_get_pixels_below_lines ()
void gtk_text_view_set_pixels_inside_wrap ()
gint gtk_text_view_get_pixels_inside_wrap ()
void gtk_text_view_set_justification ()
GtkJustification gtk_text_view_get_justification ()
void gtk_text_view_set_left_margin ()
gint gtk_text_view_get_left_margin ()
void gtk_text_view_set_right_margin ()
gint gtk_text_view_get_right_margin ()
void gtk_text_view_set_indent ()
gint gtk_text_view_get_indent ()
void gtk_text_view_set_tabs ()
PangoTabArray * gtk_text_view_get_tabs ()
void gtk_text_view_set_accepts_tab ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_get_accepts_tab ()
GtkTextAttributes * gtk_text_view_get_default_attributes ()
gboolean gtk_text_view_im_context_filter_keypress ()
void gtk_text_view_reset_im_context ()
GtkAdjustment * gtk_text_view_get_hadjustment ()
GtkAdjustment * gtk_text_view_get_vadjustment ()

Properties

gboolean accepts-tab Read / Write
GtkTextBuffer * buffer Read / Write
gboolean cursor-visible Read / Write
gboolean editable Read / Write
char * im-module Read / Write
int indent Read / Write
GtkJustification justification Read / Write
int left-margin Read / Write
gboolean overwrite Read / Write
int pixels-above-lines Read / Write
int pixels-below-lines Read / Write
int pixels-inside-wrap Read / Write
int right-margin Read / Write
PangoTabArray * tabs Read / Write
GtkWrapMode wrap-mode Read / Write

Style Properties

Signals

void backspace Action
void copy-clipboard Action
void cut-clipboard Action
void delete-from-cursor Action
void insert-at-cursor Action
void move-cursor Action
void move-viewport Action
void page-horizontally Action
void paste-clipboard Action
void populate-popup Run Last
void preedit-changed Action
void select-all Action
void set-anchor Action
void set-scroll-adjustments Action
void toggle-cursor-visible Action
void toggle-overwrite Action

Types and Values

Object Hierarchy

    GObject
    ├── GInitiallyUnowned
       ╰── GtkObject
           ╰── GtkWidget
               ╰── GtkContainer
                   ╰── GtkTextView
    ╰── GtkTextChildAnchor

Implemented Interfaces

GtkTextView implements AtkImplementorIface and GtkBuildable.

Includes

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

Description

Functions

gtk_text_view_new ()

GtkWidget *
gtk_text_view_new (void);

Creates a new GtkTextView. If you don't call gtk_text_view_set_buffer() before using the text view, an empty default buffer will be created for you. Get the buffer with gtk_text_view_get_buffer(). If you want to specify your own buffer, consider gtk_text_view_new_with_buffer().

Returns

a new GtkTextView


gtk_text_view_new_with_buffer ()

GtkWidget *
gtk_text_view_new_with_buffer (GtkTextBuffer *buffer);

Creates a new GtkTextView widget displaying the buffer buffer . One buffer can be shared among many widgets. buffer may be NULL to create a default buffer, in which case this function is equivalent to gtk_text_view_new(). The text view adds its own reference count to the buffer; it does not take over an existing reference.

Parameters

buffer

a GtkTextBuffer

 

Returns

a new GtkTextView.


gtk_text_view_set_buffer ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_buffer (GtkTextView *text_view,
                          GtkTextBuffer *buffer);

Sets buffer as the buffer being displayed by text_view . The previous buffer displayed by the text view is unreferenced, and a reference is added to buffer . If you owned a reference to buffer before passing it to this function, you must remove that reference yourself; GtkTextView will not "adopt" it.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

buffer

a GtkTextBuffer.

[allow-none]

gtk_text_view_get_buffer ()

GtkTextBuffer *
gtk_text_view_get_buffer (GtkTextView *text_view);

Returns the GtkTextBuffer being displayed by this text view. The reference count on the buffer is not incremented; the caller of this function won't own a new reference.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

a GtkTextBuffer.

[transfer none]


gtk_text_view_scroll_to_mark ()

void
gtk_text_view_scroll_to_mark (GtkTextView *text_view,
                              GtkTextMark *mark,
                              gdouble within_margin,
                              gboolean use_align,
                              gdouble xalign,
                              gdouble yalign);

Scrolls text_view so that mark is on the screen in the position indicated by xalign and yalign . An alignment of 0.0 indicates left or top, 1.0 indicates right or bottom, 0.5 means center. If use_align is FALSE, the text scrolls the minimal distance to get the mark onscreen, possibly not scrolling at all. The effective screen for purposes of this function is reduced by a margin of size within_margin .

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

mark

a GtkTextMark

 

within_margin

margin as a [0.0,0.5) fraction of screen size

 

use_align

whether to use alignment arguments (if FALSE, just get the mark onscreen)

 

xalign

horizontal alignment of mark within visible area

 

yalign

vertical alignment of mark within visible area

 

gtk_text_view_scroll_to_iter ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_scroll_to_iter (GtkTextView *text_view,
                              GtkTextIter *iter,
                              gdouble within_margin,
                              gboolean use_align,
                              gdouble xalign,
                              gdouble yalign);

Scrolls text_view so that iter is on the screen in the position indicated by xalign and yalign . An alignment of 0.0 indicates left or top, 1.0 indicates right or bottom, 0.5 means center. If use_align is FALSE, the text scrolls the minimal distance to get the mark onscreen, possibly not scrolling at all. The effective screen for purposes of this function is reduced by a margin of size within_margin .

Note that this function uses the currently-computed height of the lines in the text buffer. Line heights are computed in an idle handler; so this function may not have the desired effect if it's called before the height computations. To avoid oddness, consider using gtk_text_view_scroll_to_mark() which saves a point to be scrolled to after line validation.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

iter

a GtkTextIter

 

within_margin

margin as a [0.0,0.5) fraction of screen size

 

use_align

whether to use alignment arguments (if FALSE, just get the mark onscreen)

 

xalign

horizontal alignment of mark within visible area

 

yalign

vertical alignment of mark within visible area

 

Returns

TRUE if scrolling occurred


gtk_text_view_scroll_mark_onscreen ()

void
gtk_text_view_scroll_mark_onscreen (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                    GtkTextMark *mark);

Scrolls text_view the minimum distance such that mark is contained within the visible area of the widget.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

mark

a mark in the buffer for text_view

 

gtk_text_view_move_mark_onscreen ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_move_mark_onscreen (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                  GtkTextMark *mark);

Moves a mark within the buffer so that it's located within the currently-visible text area.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

mark

a GtkTextMark

 

Returns

TRUE if the mark moved (wasn't already onscreen)


gtk_text_view_place_cursor_onscreen ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_place_cursor_onscreen (GtkTextView *text_view);

Moves the cursor to the currently visible region of the buffer, it it isn't there already.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

TRUE if the cursor had to be moved.


gtk_text_view_get_visible_rect ()

void
gtk_text_view_get_visible_rect (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                GdkRectangle *visible_rect);

Fills visible_rect with the currently-visible region of the buffer, in buffer coordinates. Convert to window coordinates with gtk_text_view_buffer_to_window_coords().

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

visible_rect

rectangle to fill.

[out]

gtk_text_view_get_iter_location ()

void
gtk_text_view_get_iter_location (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                 const GtkTextIter *iter,
                                 GdkRectangle *location);

Gets a rectangle which roughly contains the character at iter . The rectangle position is in buffer coordinates; use gtk_text_view_buffer_to_window_coords() to convert these coordinates to coordinates for one of the windows in the text view.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

iter

a GtkTextIter

 

location

bounds of the character at iter .

[out]

gtk_text_view_get_line_at_y ()

void
gtk_text_view_get_line_at_y (GtkTextView *text_view,
                             GtkTextIter *target_iter,
                             gint y,
                             gint *line_top);

Gets the GtkTextIter at the start of the line containing the coordinate y . y is in buffer coordinates, convert from window coordinates with gtk_text_view_window_to_buffer_coords(). If non-NULL, line_top will be filled with the coordinate of the top edge of the line.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

target_iter

a GtkTextIter.

[out]

y

a y coordinate

 

line_top

return location for top coordinate of the line.

[out]

gtk_text_view_get_line_yrange ()

void
gtk_text_view_get_line_yrange (GtkTextView *text_view,
                               const GtkTextIter *iter,
                               gint *y,
                               gint *height);

Gets the y coordinate of the top of the line containing iter , and the height of the line. The coordinate is a buffer coordinate; convert to window coordinates with gtk_text_view_buffer_to_window_coords().

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

iter

a GtkTextIter

 

y

return location for a y coordinate.

[out]

height

return location for a height.

[out]

gtk_text_view_get_iter_at_location ()

void
gtk_text_view_get_iter_at_location (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                    GtkTextIter *iter,
                                    gint x,
                                    gint y);

Retrieves the iterator at buffer coordinates x and y . Buffer coordinates are coordinates for the entire buffer, not just the currently-displayed portion. If you have coordinates from an event, you have to convert those to buffer coordinates with gtk_text_view_window_to_buffer_coords().

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

iter

a GtkTextIter.

[out]

x

x position, in buffer coordinates

 

y

y position, in buffer coordinates

 

gtk_text_view_get_iter_at_position ()

void
gtk_text_view_get_iter_at_position (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                    GtkTextIter *iter,
                                    gint *trailing,
                                    gint x,
                                    gint y);

Retrieves the iterator pointing to the character at buffer coordinates x and y . Buffer coordinates are coordinates for the entire buffer, not just the currently-displayed portion. If you have coordinates from an event, you have to convert those to buffer coordinates with gtk_text_view_window_to_buffer_coords().

Note that this is different from gtk_text_view_get_iter_at_location(), which returns cursor locations, i.e. positions between characters.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

iter

a GtkTextIter.

[out]

trailing

if non-NULL, location to store an integer indicating where in the grapheme the user clicked. It will either be zero, or the number of characters in the grapheme. 0 represents the trailing edge of the grapheme.

[out][allow-none]

x

x position, in buffer coordinates

 

y

y position, in buffer coordinates

 

Since: 2.6


gtk_text_view_buffer_to_window_coords ()

void
gtk_text_view_buffer_to_window_coords (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                       GtkTextWindowType win,
                                       gint buffer_x,
                                       gint buffer_y,
                                       gint *window_x,
                                       gint *window_y);

Converts coordinate (buffer_x , buffer_y ) to coordinates for the window win , and stores the result in (window_x , window_y ).

Note that you can't convert coordinates for a nonexisting window (see gtk_text_view_set_border_window_size()).

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

win

a GtkTextWindowType except GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_PRIVATE

 

buffer_x

buffer x coordinate

 

buffer_y

buffer y coordinate

 

window_x

window x coordinate return location or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

window_y

window y coordinate return location or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

gtk_text_view_window_to_buffer_coords ()

void
gtk_text_view_window_to_buffer_coords (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                       GtkTextWindowType win,
                                       gint window_x,
                                       gint window_y,
                                       gint *buffer_x,
                                       gint *buffer_y);

Converts coordinates on the window identified by win to buffer coordinates, storing the result in (buffer_x ,buffer_y ).

Note that you can't convert coordinates for a nonexisting window (see gtk_text_view_set_border_window_size()).

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

win

a GtkTextWindowType except GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_PRIVATE

 

window_x

window x coordinate

 

window_y

window y coordinate

 

buffer_x

buffer x coordinate return location or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

buffer_y

buffer y coordinate return location or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

gtk_text_view_get_window ()

GdkWindow *
gtk_text_view_get_window (GtkTextView *text_view,
                          GtkTextWindowType win);

Retrieves the GdkWindow corresponding to an area of the text view; possible windows include the overall widget window, child windows on the left, right, top, bottom, and the window that displays the text buffer. Windows are NULL and nonexistent if their width or height is 0, and are nonexistent before the widget has been realized.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

win

window to get

 

Returns

a GdkWindow, or NULL.

[transfer none]


gtk_text_view_get_window_type ()

GtkTextWindowType
gtk_text_view_get_window_type (GtkTextView *text_view,
                               GdkWindow *window);

Usually used to find out which window an event corresponds to. If you connect to an event signal on text_view , this function should be called on event->window to see which window it was.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

window

a window type

 

Returns

the window type.


gtk_text_view_set_border_window_size ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_border_window_size (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                      GtkTextWindowType type,
                                      gint size);

Sets the width of GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_LEFT or GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_RIGHT, or the height of GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_TOP or GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_BOTTOM. Automatically destroys the corresponding window if the size is set to 0, and creates the window if the size is set to non-zero. This function can only be used for the "border windows," it doesn't work with GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_WIDGET, GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_TEXT, or GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_PRIVATE.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

type

window to affect

 

size

width or height of the window

 

gtk_text_view_get_border_window_size ()

gint
gtk_text_view_get_border_window_size (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                      GtkTextWindowType type);

Gets the width of the specified border window. See gtk_text_view_set_border_window_size().

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

type

window to return size from

 

Returns

width of window


gtk_text_view_forward_display_line ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_forward_display_line (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                    GtkTextIter *iter);

Moves the given iter forward by one display (wrapped) line. A display line is different from a paragraph. Paragraphs are separated by newlines or other paragraph separator characters. Display lines are created by line-wrapping a paragraph. If wrapping is turned off, display lines and paragraphs will be the same. Display lines are divided differently for each view, since they depend on the view's width; paragraphs are the same in all views, since they depend on the contents of the GtkTextBuffer.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

iter

a GtkTextIter

 

Returns

TRUE if iter was moved and is not on the end iterator


gtk_text_view_backward_display_line ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_backward_display_line (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                     GtkTextIter *iter);

Moves the given iter backward by one display (wrapped) line. A display line is different from a paragraph. Paragraphs are separated by newlines or other paragraph separator characters. Display lines are created by line-wrapping a paragraph. If wrapping is turned off, display lines and paragraphs will be the same. Display lines are divided differently for each view, since they depend on the view's width; paragraphs are the same in all views, since they depend on the contents of the GtkTextBuffer.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

iter

a GtkTextIter

 

Returns

TRUE if iter was moved and is not on the end iterator


gtk_text_view_forward_display_line_end ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_forward_display_line_end
                               (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                GtkTextIter *iter);

Moves the given iter forward to the next display line end. A display line is different from a paragraph. Paragraphs are separated by newlines or other paragraph separator characters. Display lines are created by line-wrapping a paragraph. If wrapping is turned off, display lines and paragraphs will be the same. Display lines are divided differently for each view, since they depend on the view's width; paragraphs are the same in all views, since they depend on the contents of the GtkTextBuffer.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

iter

a GtkTextIter

 

Returns

TRUE if iter was moved and is not on the end iterator


gtk_text_view_backward_display_line_start ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_backward_display_line_start
                               (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                GtkTextIter *iter);

Moves the given iter backward to the next display line start. A display line is different from a paragraph. Paragraphs are separated by newlines or other paragraph separator characters. Display lines are created by line-wrapping a paragraph. If wrapping is turned off, display lines and paragraphs will be the same. Display lines are divided differently for each view, since they depend on the view's width; paragraphs are the same in all views, since they depend on the contents of the GtkTextBuffer.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

iter

a GtkTextIter

 

Returns

TRUE if iter was moved and is not on the end iterator


gtk_text_view_starts_display_line ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_starts_display_line (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                   const GtkTextIter *iter);

Determines whether iter is at the start of a display line. See gtk_text_view_forward_display_line() for an explanation of display lines vs. paragraphs.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

iter

a GtkTextIter

 

Returns

TRUE if iter begins a wrapped line


gtk_text_view_move_visually ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_move_visually (GtkTextView *text_view,
                             GtkTextIter *iter,
                             gint count);

Move the iterator a given number of characters visually, treating it as the strong cursor position. If count is positive, then the new strong cursor position will be count positions to the right of the old cursor position. If count is negative then the new strong cursor position will be count positions to the left of the old cursor position.

In the presence of bi-directional text, the correspondence between logical and visual order will depend on the direction of the current run, and there may be jumps when the cursor is moved off of the end of a run.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

iter

a GtkTextIter

 

count

number of characters to move (negative moves left, positive moves right)

 

Returns

TRUE if iter moved and is not on the end iterator


gtk_text_view_add_child_at_anchor ()

void
gtk_text_view_add_child_at_anchor (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                   GtkWidget *child,
                                   GtkTextChildAnchor *anchor);

Adds a child widget in the text buffer, at the given anchor .

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

child

a GtkWidget

 

anchor

a GtkTextChildAnchor in the GtkTextBuffer for text_view

 

gtk_text_child_anchor_new ()

GtkTextChildAnchor *
gtk_text_child_anchor_new (void);

Creates a new GtkTextChildAnchor. Usually you would then insert it into a GtkTextBuffer with gtk_text_buffer_insert_child_anchor(). To perform the creation and insertion in one step, use the convenience function gtk_text_buffer_create_child_anchor().

Returns

a new GtkTextChildAnchor


gtk_text_child_anchor_get_widgets ()

GList *
gtk_text_child_anchor_get_widgets (GtkTextChildAnchor *anchor);

Gets a list of all widgets anchored at this child anchor. The returned list should be freed with g_list_free().

Parameters

anchor

a GtkTextChildAnchor

 

Returns

list of widgets anchored at anchor .

[element-type GtkWidget][transfer container]


gtk_text_child_anchor_get_deleted ()

gboolean
gtk_text_child_anchor_get_deleted (GtkTextChildAnchor *anchor);

Determines whether a child anchor has been deleted from the buffer. Keep in mind that the child anchor will be unreferenced when removed from the buffer, so you need to hold your own reference (with g_object_ref()) if you plan to use this function — otherwise all deleted child anchors will also be finalized.

Parameters

anchor

a GtkTextChildAnchor

 

Returns

TRUE if the child anchor has been deleted from its buffer


gtk_text_view_add_child_in_window ()

void
gtk_text_view_add_child_in_window (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                   GtkWidget *child,
                                   GtkTextWindowType which_window,
                                   gint xpos,
                                   gint ypos);

Adds a child at fixed coordinates in one of the text widget's windows. The window must have nonzero size (see gtk_text_view_set_border_window_size()). Note that the child coordinates are given relative to the GdkWindow in question, and that these coordinates have no sane relationship to scrolling. When placing a child in GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_WIDGET, scrolling is irrelevant, the child floats above all scrollable areas. But when placing a child in one of the scrollable windows (border windows or text window), you'll need to compute the child's correct position in buffer coordinates any time scrolling occurs or buffer changes occur, and then call gtk_text_view_move_child() to update the child's position. Unfortunately there's no good way to detect that scrolling has occurred, using the current API; a possible hack would be to update all child positions when the scroll adjustments change or the text buffer changes. See bug 64518 on bugzilla.gnome.org for status of fixing this issue.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

child

a GtkWidget

 

which_window

which window the child should appear in

 

xpos

X position of child in window coordinates

 

ypos

Y position of child in window coordinates

 

gtk_text_view_move_child ()

void
gtk_text_view_move_child (GtkTextView *text_view,
                          GtkWidget *child,
                          gint xpos,
                          gint ypos);

Updates the position of a child, as for gtk_text_view_add_child_in_window().

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

child

child widget already added to the text view

 

xpos

new X position in window coordinates

 

ypos

new Y position in window coordinates

 

gtk_text_view_set_wrap_mode ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_wrap_mode (GtkTextView *text_view,
                             GtkWrapMode wrap_mode);

Sets the line wrapping for the view.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

wrap_mode

a GtkWrapMode

 

gtk_text_view_get_wrap_mode ()

GtkWrapMode
gtk_text_view_get_wrap_mode (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the line wrapping for the view.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

the line wrap setting


gtk_text_view_set_editable ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_editable (GtkTextView *text_view,
                            gboolean setting);

Sets the default editability of the GtkTextView. You can override this default setting with tags in the buffer, using the "editable" attribute of tags.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

setting

whether it's editable

 

gtk_text_view_get_editable ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_get_editable (GtkTextView *text_view);

Returns the default editability of the GtkTextView. Tags in the buffer may override this setting for some ranges of text.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

whether text is editable by default


gtk_text_view_set_cursor_visible ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_cursor_visible (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                  gboolean setting);

Toggles whether the insertion point is displayed. A buffer with no editable text probably shouldn't have a visible cursor, so you may want to turn the cursor off.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

setting

whether to show the insertion cursor

 

gtk_text_view_get_cursor_visible ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_get_cursor_visible (GtkTextView *text_view);

Find out whether the cursor is being displayed.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

whether the insertion mark is visible


gtk_text_view_set_overwrite ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_overwrite (GtkTextView *text_view,
                             gboolean overwrite);

Changes the GtkTextView overwrite mode.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

overwrite

TRUE to turn on overwrite mode, FALSE to turn it off

 

Since: 2.4


gtk_text_view_get_overwrite ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_get_overwrite (GtkTextView *text_view);

Returns whether the GtkTextView is in overwrite mode or not.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

whether text_view is in overwrite mode or not.

Since: 2.4


gtk_text_view_set_pixels_above_lines ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_pixels_above_lines (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                      gint pixels_above_lines);

Sets the default number of blank pixels above paragraphs in text_view . Tags in the buffer for text_view may override the defaults.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

pixels_above_lines

pixels above paragraphs

 

gtk_text_view_get_pixels_above_lines ()

gint
gtk_text_view_get_pixels_above_lines (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the default number of pixels to put above paragraphs.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

default number of pixels above paragraphs


gtk_text_view_set_pixels_below_lines ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_pixels_below_lines (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                      gint pixels_below_lines);

Sets the default number of pixels of blank space to put below paragraphs in text_view . May be overridden by tags applied to text_view 's buffer.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

pixels_below_lines

pixels below paragraphs

 

gtk_text_view_get_pixels_below_lines ()

gint
gtk_text_view_get_pixels_below_lines (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the value set by gtk_text_view_set_pixels_below_lines().

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

default number of blank pixels below paragraphs


gtk_text_view_set_pixels_inside_wrap ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_pixels_inside_wrap (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                      gint pixels_inside_wrap);

Sets the default number of pixels of blank space to leave between display/wrapped lines within a paragraph. May be overridden by tags in text_view 's buffer.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

pixels_inside_wrap

default number of pixels between wrapped lines

 

gtk_text_view_get_pixels_inside_wrap ()

gint
gtk_text_view_get_pixels_inside_wrap (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the value set by gtk_text_view_set_pixels_inside_wrap().

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

default number of pixels of blank space between wrapped lines


gtk_text_view_set_justification ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_justification (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                 GtkJustification justification);

Sets the default justification of text in text_view . Tags in the view's buffer may override the default.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

justification

justification

 

gtk_text_view_get_justification ()

GtkJustification
gtk_text_view_get_justification (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the default justification of paragraphs in text_view . Tags in the buffer may override the default.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

default justification


gtk_text_view_set_left_margin ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_left_margin (GtkTextView *text_view,
                               gint left_margin);

Sets the default left margin for text in text_view . Tags in the buffer may override the default.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

left_margin

left margin in pixels

 

gtk_text_view_get_left_margin ()

gint
gtk_text_view_get_left_margin (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the default left margin size of paragraphs in the text_view . Tags in the buffer may override the default.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

left margin in pixels


gtk_text_view_set_right_margin ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_right_margin (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                gint right_margin);

Sets the default right margin for text in the text view. Tags in the buffer may override the default.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

right_margin

right margin in pixels

 

gtk_text_view_get_right_margin ()

gint
gtk_text_view_get_right_margin (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the default right margin for text in text_view . Tags in the buffer may override the default.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

right margin in pixels


gtk_text_view_set_indent ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_indent (GtkTextView *text_view,
                          gint indent);

Sets the default indentation for paragraphs in text_view . Tags in the buffer may override the default.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

indent

indentation in pixels

 

gtk_text_view_get_indent ()

gint
gtk_text_view_get_indent (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the default indentation of paragraphs in text_view . Tags in the view's buffer may override the default. The indentation may be negative.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

number of pixels of indentation


gtk_text_view_set_tabs ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_tabs (GtkTextView *text_view,
                        PangoTabArray *tabs);

Sets the default tab stops for paragraphs in text_view . Tags in the buffer may override the default.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

tabs

tabs as a PangoTabArray

 

gtk_text_view_get_tabs ()

PangoTabArray *
gtk_text_view_get_tabs (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the default tabs for text_view . Tags in the buffer may override the defaults. The returned array will be NULL if "standard" (8-space) tabs are used. Free the return value with pango_tab_array_free().

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

copy of default tab array, or NULL if "standard" tabs are used; must be freed with pango_tab_array_free().


gtk_text_view_set_accepts_tab ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_accepts_tab (GtkTextView *text_view,
                               gboolean accepts_tab);

Sets the behavior of the text widget when the Tab key is pressed. If accepts_tab is TRUE, a tab character is inserted. If accepts_tab is FALSE the keyboard focus is moved to the next widget in the focus chain.

Parameters

text_view

A GtkTextView

 

accepts_tab

TRUE if pressing the Tab key should insert a tab character, FALSE, if pressing the Tab key should move the keyboard focus.

 

Since: 2.4


gtk_text_view_get_accepts_tab ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_get_accepts_tab (GtkTextView *text_view);

Returns whether pressing the Tab key inserts a tab characters. gtk_text_view_set_accepts_tab().

Parameters

text_view

A GtkTextView

 

Returns

TRUE if pressing the Tab key inserts a tab character, FALSE if pressing the Tab key moves the keyboard focus.

Since: 2.4


gtk_text_view_get_default_attributes ()

GtkTextAttributes *
gtk_text_view_get_default_attributes (GtkTextView *text_view);

Obtains a copy of the default text attributes. These are the attributes used for text unless a tag overrides them. You'd typically pass the default attributes in to gtk_text_iter_get_attributes() in order to get the attributes in effect at a given text position.

The return value is a copy owned by the caller of this function, and should be freed.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

a new GtkTextAttributes


gtk_text_view_im_context_filter_keypress ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_im_context_filter_keypress
                               (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                GdkEventKey *event);

Allow the GtkTextView input method to internally handle key press and release events. If this function returns TRUE, then no further processing should be done for this key event. See gtk_im_context_filter_keypress().

Note that you are expected to call this function from your handler when overriding key event handling. This is needed in the case when you need to insert your own key handling between the input method and the default key event handling of the GtkTextView.

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static gboolean
gtk_foo_bar_key_press_event (GtkWidget   *widget,
                             GdkEventKey *event)
{
  if ((key->keyval == GDK_Return || key->keyval == GDK_KP_Enter))
    {
      if (gtk_text_view_im_context_filter_keypress (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (view), event))
        return TRUE;
    }

    /* Do some stuff */

  return GTK_WIDGET_CLASS (gtk_foo_bar_parent_class)->key_press_event (widget, event);
}

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

event

the key event

 

Returns

TRUE if the input method handled the key event.

Since: 2.22


gtk_text_view_reset_im_context ()

void
gtk_text_view_reset_im_context (GtkTextView *text_view);

Reset the input method context of the text view if needed.

This can be necessary in the case where modifying the buffer would confuse on-going input method behavior.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Since: 2.22


gtk_text_view_get_hadjustment ()

GtkAdjustment *
gtk_text_view_get_hadjustment (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the horizontal-scrolling GtkAdjustment.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

pointer to the horizontal GtkAdjustment.

[transfer none]

Since: 2.22


gtk_text_view_get_vadjustment ()

GtkAdjustment *
gtk_text_view_get_vadjustment (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the vertical-scrolling GtkAdjustment.

Parameters

text_view

a GtkTextView

 

Returns

pointer to the vertical GtkAdjustment.

[transfer none]

Since: 2.22

Types and Values

struct GtkTextView

struct GtkTextView;

enum GtkTextWindowType

Members

GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_PRIVATE

   

GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_WIDGET

   

GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_TEXT

   

GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_LEFT

   

GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_RIGHT

   

GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_TOP

   

GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_BOTTOM

   

struct GtkTextChildAnchor

struct GtkTextChildAnchor;

GTK_TEXT_VIEW_PRIORITY_VALIDATE

#define GTK_TEXT_VIEW_PRIORITY_VALIDATE (GDK_PRIORITY_REDRAW + 5)

Property Details

The “accepts-tab” property

  “accepts-tab”              gboolean

Whether Tab will result in a tab character being entered.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE


The “buffer” property

  “buffer”                   GtkTextBuffer *

The buffer which is displayed.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write


The “cursor-visible” property

  “cursor-visible”           gboolean

If the insertion cursor is shown.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE


The “editable” property

  “editable”                 gboolean

Whether the text can be modified by the user.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE


The “im-module” property

  “im-module”                char *

Which IM (input method) module should be used for this entry. See GtkIMContext.

Setting this to a non-NULL value overrides the system-wide IM module setting. See the GtkSettings “gtk-im-module” property.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: NULL

Since: 2.16


The “indent” property

  “indent”                   int

Amount to indent the paragraph, in pixels.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: 0


The “justification” property

  “justification”            GtkJustification

Left, right, or center justification.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: GTK_JUSTIFY_LEFT


The “left-margin” property

  “left-margin”              int

Width of the left margin in pixels.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 0


The “overwrite” property

  “overwrite”                gboolean

Whether entered text overwrites existing contents.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE


The “pixels-above-lines” property

  “pixels-above-lines”       int

Pixels of blank space above paragraphs.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 0


The “pixels-below-lines” property

  “pixels-below-lines”       int

Pixels of blank space below paragraphs.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 0


The “pixels-inside-wrap” property

  “pixels-inside-wrap”       int

Pixels of blank space between wrapped lines in a paragraph.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 0


The “right-margin” property

  “right-margin”             int

Width of the right margin in pixels.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 0


The “tabs” property

  “tabs”                     PangoTabArray *

Custom tabs for this text.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write


The “wrap-mode” property

  “wrap-mode”                GtkWrapMode

Whether to wrap lines never, at word boundaries, or at character boundaries.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: GTK_WRAP_NONE

Style Property Details

The “error-underline-color” style property

  “error-underline-color”    GdkColor *

Color with which to draw error-indication underlines.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read

Signal Details

The “backspace” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::backspace signal is a

keybinding signal

which gets emitted when the user asks for it.

The default bindings for this signal are Backspace and Shift-Backspace.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “copy-clipboard” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::copy-clipboard signal is a

keybinding signal

which gets emitted to copy the selection to the clipboard.

The default bindings for this signal are Ctrl-c and Ctrl-Insert.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “cut-clipboard” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::cut-clipboard signal is a

keybinding signal

which gets emitted to cut the selection to the clipboard.

The default bindings for this signal are Ctrl-x and Shift-Delete.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “delete-from-cursor” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView  *text_view,
               GtkDeleteType type,
               int           count,
               gpointer      user_data)

The ::delete-from-cursor signal is a

keybinding signal

which gets emitted when the user initiates a text deletion.

If the type is GTK_DELETE_CHARS, GTK+ deletes the selection if there is one, otherwise it deletes the requested number of characters.

The default bindings for this signal are Delete for deleting a character, Ctrl-Delete for deleting a word and Ctrl-Backspace for deleting a word backwords.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

type

the granularity of the deletion, as a GtkDeleteType

 

count

the number of type units to delete

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “insert-at-cursor” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               char        *string,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::insert-at-cursor signal is a

keybinding signal

which gets emitted when the user initiates the insertion of a fixed string at the cursor.

This signal has no default bindings.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

string

the string to insert

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “move-cursor” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView    *text_view,
               GtkMovementStep step,
               int             count,
               gboolean        extend_selection,
               gpointer        user_data)

The ::move-cursor signal is a

keybinding signal

which gets emitted when the user initiates a cursor movement. If the cursor is not visible in text_view , this signal causes the viewport to be moved instead.

Applications should not connect to it, but may emit it with g_signal_emit_by_name() if they need to control the cursor programmatically.

The default bindings for this signal come in two variants, the variant with the Shift modifier extends the selection, the variant without the Shift modifer does not. There are too many key combinations to list them all here.

  • Arrow keys move by individual characters/lines
  • Ctrl-arrow key combinations move by words/paragraphs
  • Home/End keys move to the ends of the buffer
  • PageUp/PageDown keys move vertically by pages
  • Ctrl-PageUp/PageDown keys move horizontally by pages

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

step

the granularity of the move, as a GtkMovementStep

 

count

the number of step units to move

 

extend_selection

TRUE if the move should extend the selection

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “move-viewport” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView  *text_view,
               GtkScrollStep step,
               int           count,
               gpointer      user_data)

The ::move-viewport signal is a

keybinding signal

which can be bound to key combinations to allow the user to move the viewport, i.e. change what part of the text view is visible in a containing scrolled window.

There are no default bindings for this signal.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

step

the granularity of the move, as a GtkMovementStep

 

count

the number of step units to move

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “page-horizontally” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               int          count,
               gboolean     extend_selection,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::page-horizontally signal is a

keybinding signal

which can be bound to key combinations to allow the user to initiate horizontal cursor movement by pages.

This signal should not be used anymore, instead use the “move-cursor” signal with the GTK_MOVEMENT_HORIZONTAL_PAGES granularity.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

count

the number of step units to move

 

extend_selection

TRUE if the move should extend the selection

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “paste-clipboard” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::paste-clipboard signal is a

keybinding signal

which gets emitted to paste the contents of the clipboard into the text view.

The default bindings for this signal are Ctrl-v and Shift-Insert.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “populate-popup” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *entry,
               GtkMenu     *menu,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::populate-popup signal gets emitted before showing the context menu of the text view.

If you need to add items to the context menu, connect to this signal and append your menuitems to the menu .

Parameters

entry

The text view on which the signal is emitted

 

menu

the menu that is being populated

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Run Last


The “preedit-changed” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               char        *preedit,
               gpointer     user_data)

If an input method is used, the typed text will not immediately be committed to the buffer. So if you are interested in the text, connect to this signal.

This signal is only emitted if the text at the given position is actually editable.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

preedit

the current preedit string

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action

Since: 2.20


The “select-all” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               gboolean     select,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::select-all signal is a

keybinding signal

which gets emitted to select or unselect the complete contents of the text view.

The default bindings for this signal are Ctrl-a and Ctrl-/ for selecting and Shift-Ctrl-a and Ctrl-\ for unselecting.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

select

TRUE to select, FALSE to unselect

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “set-anchor” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::set-anchor signal is a

keybinding signal

which gets emitted when the user initiates setting the "anchor" mark. The "anchor" mark gets placed at the same position as the "insert" mark.

This signal has no default bindings.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “set-scroll-adjustments” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView   *horizontal,
               GtkAdjustment *vertical,
               GtkAdjustment *arg2,
               gpointer       user_data)

Set the scroll adjustments for the text view. Usually scrolled containers like GtkScrolledWindow will emit this signal to connect two instances of GtkScrollbar to the scroll directions of the GtkTextView.

Parameters

horizontal

the horizontal GtkAdjustment

 

vertical

the vertical GtkAdjustment

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “toggle-cursor-visible” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::toggle-cursor-visible signal is a

keybinding signal

which gets emitted to toggle the visibility of the cursor.

The default binding for this signal is F7.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action


The “toggle-overwrite” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::toggle-overwrite signal is a

keybinding signal

which gets emitted to toggle the overwrite mode of the text view.

The default bindings for this signal is Insert.

Parameters

text_view

the object which received the signal

 

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

 

Flags: Action