Library

GTK+

Header File

gtk/gtktext.h

Description

GtkText is a text widget. It can display text, and offers simple text-editing facilities.

Two questions about the text widget are very frequently asked on the GTK+ mailing lists. These are:

• Does the text widget support horizontal scrolling?

• The text widget doesn't seem to be very powerful. Are there plans to replace it?

The text widget does not support horizontal scrolling; instead, it wraps lines. It is not very powerful, and the code is difficult to maintain; it will most likely be replaced in Gtk 1.4 as part of the move to Unicode.