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textview.view
├── border.top
├── border.left
├── text
│   ╰── [selection]
├── border.right
├── border.bottom
╰── [window.popup]

GtkTextView has a main css node with name textview and style class .view, and subnodes for each of the border windows, and the main text area, with names border and text, respectively. The border nodes each get one of the style classes .left, .right, .top or .bottom.

A node representing the selection will appear below the text node.

If a context menu is opened, the window node will appear as a subnode of the main node.

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().

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.

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.

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.

gtk_text_view_get_hadjustment ()

GtkAdjustment *
gtk_text_view_get_hadjustment (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the horizontal-scrolling GtkAdjustment.

Since: 2.22

gtk_text_view_get_vadjustment ()

GtkAdjustment *
gtk_text_view_get_vadjustment (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the vertical-scrolling GtkAdjustment.

Since: 2.22

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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().

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.

gtk_text_view_get_cursor_locations ()

void
gtk_text_view_get_cursor_locations (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                    const GtkTextIter *iter,
                                    GdkRectangle *strong,
                                    GdkRectangle *weak);

Given an iter within a text layout, determine the positions of the strong and weak cursors if the insertion point is at that iterator. The position of each cursor is stored as a zero-width rectangle. The strong cursor location is the location where characters of the directionality equal to the base direction of the paragraph are inserted. The weak cursor location is the location where characters of the directionality opposite to the base direction of the paragraph are inserted.

If iter is NULL, the actual cursor position is used.

Note that if iter happens to be the actual cursor position, and there is currently an IM preedit sequence being entered, the returned locations will be adjusted to account for the preedit cursor’s offset within the preedit sequence.

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.

Since: 3.0

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.

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().

gtk_text_view_get_iter_at_location ()

gboolean
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().

gtk_text_view_get_iter_at_position ()

gboolean
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.

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()).

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()).

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.

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.

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”, and it won’t work with GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_WIDGET, GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_TEXT, or GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_PRIVATE.

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().

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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().

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().

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.

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 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) it will move with the scrolling as needed.

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().

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.

gtk_text_view_get_wrap_mode ()

GtkWrapMode
gtk_text_view_get_wrap_mode (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the line wrapping for the view.

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.

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.

gtk_text_view_set_cursor_visible ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_cursor_visible (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                  gboolean setting);

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

Note that this property may be overridden by the “gtk-keynave-use-caret” settings.

gtk_text_view_get_cursor_visible ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_get_cursor_visible (GtkTextView *text_view);

Find out whether the cursor should be displayed.

gtk_text_view_reset_cursor_blink ()

void
gtk_text_view_reset_cursor_blink (GtkTextView *text_view);

Ensures that the cursor is shown (i.e. not in an 'off' blink interval) and resets the time that it will stay blinking (or visible, in case blinking is disabled).

This function should be called in response to user input (e.g. from derived classes that override the textview's “key-press-event” handler).

Since: 3.20

gtk_text_view_set_overwrite ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_overwrite (GtkTextView *text_view,
                             gboolean overwrite);

Changes the GtkTextView overwrite mode.

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.

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.

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. Adding this function with gtk_text_view_get_pixels_below_lines() is equal to the line space between each paragraph.

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.

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().

The line space is the sum of the value returned by this function and the value returned by gtk_text_view_get_pixels_above_lines().

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.

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().

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.

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.

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.

Note that this function is confusingly named. In CSS terms, the value set here is padding.

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.

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.

Note that this function is confusingly named. In CSS terms, the value set here is padding.

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.

gtk_text_view_set_top_margin ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_top_margin (GtkTextView *text_view,
                              gint top_margin);

Sets the top margin for text in text_view .

Note that this function is confusingly named. In CSS terms, the value set here is padding.

Since: 3.18

gtk_text_view_get_top_margin ()

gint
gtk_text_view_get_top_margin (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the top margin for text in the text_view .

Since: 3.18

gtk_text_view_set_bottom_margin ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_bottom_margin (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                 gint bottom_margin);

Sets the bottom margin for text in text_view .

Note that this function is confusingly named. In CSS terms, the value set here is padding.

Since: 3.18

gtk_text_view_get_bottom_margin ()

gint
gtk_text_view_get_bottom_margin (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the bottom margin for text in the text_view .

Since: 3.18

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.

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.

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.

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().

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.

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().

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 with gtk_text_attributes_unref().

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)
{
  guint keyval;

  gdk_event_get_keyval ((GdkEvent*)event, &keyval);

  if (keyval == GDK_KEY_Return || keyval == GDK_KEY_KP_Enter)
    {
      if (gtk_text_view_im_context_filter_keypress (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (widget), event))
        return TRUE;
    }

  // Do some stuff

  return GTK_WIDGET_CLASS (gtk_foo_bar_parent_class)->key_press_event (widget, 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.

Since: 2.22

gtk_text_view_set_input_purpose ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_input_purpose (GtkTextView *text_view,
                                 GtkInputPurpose purpose);

Sets the “input-purpose” property which can be used by on-screen keyboards and other input methods to adjust their behaviour.

Since: 3.6

gtk_text_view_get_input_purpose ()

GtkInputPurpose
gtk_text_view_get_input_purpose (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the value of the “input-purpose” property.

Since: 3.6

gtk_text_view_set_input_hints ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_input_hints (GtkTextView *text_view,
                               GtkInputHints hints);

Sets the “input-hints” property, which allows input methods to fine-tune their behaviour.

Since: 3.6

gtk_text_view_get_input_hints ()

GtkInputHints
gtk_text_view_get_input_hints (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the value of the “input-hints” property.

Since: 3.6

gtk_text_view_set_monospace ()

void
gtk_text_view_set_monospace (GtkTextView *text_view,
                             gboolean monospace);

Sets the “monospace” property, which indicates that the text view should use monospace fonts.

Since: 3.16

gtk_text_view_get_monospace ()

gboolean
gtk_text_view_get_monospace (GtkTextView *text_view);

Gets the value of the “monospace” property.

Return: TRUE if monospace fonts are desired

Since: 3.16

struct GtkTextView

struct GtkTextView;

struct GtkTextViewClass

struct GtkTextViewClass {
  GtkContainerClass parent_class;

  void (* populate_popup)        (GtkTextView      *text_view,
                                  GtkWidget        *popup);
  void (* move_cursor)           (GtkTextView      *text_view,
                                  GtkMovementStep   step,
                                  gint              count,
                                  gboolean          extend_selection);
  void (* set_anchor)            (GtkTextView      *text_view);
  void (* insert_at_cursor)      (GtkTextView      *text_view,
                                  const gchar      *str);
  void (* delete_from_cursor)    (GtkTextView      *text_view,
                                  GtkDeleteType     type,
                                  gint              count);
  void (* backspace)             (GtkTextView      *text_view);
  void (* cut_clipboard)         (GtkTextView      *text_view);
  void (* copy_clipboard)        (GtkTextView      *text_view);
  void (* paste_clipboard)       (GtkTextView      *text_view);
  void (* toggle_overwrite)      (GtkTextView      *text_view);
  GtkTextBuffer * (* create_buffer) (GtkTextView   *text_view);
  void (* draw_layer)            (GtkTextView      *text_view,
			          GtkTextViewLayer  layer,
			          cairo_t          *cr);
  gboolean (* extend_selection)  (GtkTextView            *text_view,
                                  GtkTextExtendSelection  granularity,
                                  const GtkTextIter      *location,
                                  GtkTextIter            *start,
                                  GtkTextIter            *end);
  void (* insert_emoji)          (GtkTextView      *text_view);
};

enum GtkTextViewLayer

Used to reference the layers of GtkTextView for the purpose of customized drawing with the ::draw_layer vfunc.

enum GtkTextWindowType

Used to reference the parts of GtkTextView.

enum GtkTextExtendSelection

Granularity types that extend the text selection. Use the “extend-selection” signal to customize the selection.

Since: 3.16

enum GtkWrapMode

Describes a type of line wrapping.

struct GtkTextChildAnchor

struct GtkTextChildAnchor;

A GtkTextChildAnchor is a spot in the buffer where child widgets can be “anchored” (inserted inline, as if they were characters). The anchor can have multiple widgets anchored, to allow for multiple views.

GTK_TEXT_VIEW_PRIORITY_VALIDATE

#define GTK_TEXT_VIEW_PRIORITY_VALIDATE (GDK_PRIORITY_REDRAW + 5)

The priority at which the text view validates onscreen lines in an idle job in the background.

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 “bottom-margin” property

  “bottom-margin”            int

The bottom margin for text in the text view.

Note that this property is confusingly named. In CSS terms, the value set here is padding, and it is applied in addition to the padding from the theme.

Don't confuse this property with “margin-bottom”.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 0

Since: 3.18

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 text_view. 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 “input-hints” property

  “input-hints”              GtkInputHints

Additional hints (beyond “input-purpose”) that allow input methods to fine-tune their behaviour.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Since: 3.6

The “input-purpose” property

  “input-purpose”            GtkInputPurpose

The purpose of this text field.

This property can be used by on-screen keyboards and other input methods to adjust their behaviour.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: GTK_INPUT_PURPOSE_FREE_FORM

Since: 3.6

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

The default left margin for text in the text view. Tags in the buffer may override the default.

Note that this property is confusingly named. In CSS terms, the value set here is padding, and it is applied in addition to the padding from the theme.

Don't confuse this property with “margin-left”.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 0

The “monospace” property

  “monospace”                gboolean

Whether to use a monospace font.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

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 “populate-all” property

  “populate-all”             gboolean

If :populate-all is TRUE, the “populate-popup” signal is also emitted for touch popups.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

Since: 3.8

The “right-margin” property

  “right-margin”             int

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

Note that this property is confusingly named. In CSS terms, the value set here is padding, and it is applied in addition to the padding from the theme.

Don't confuse this property with “margin-right”.

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 “top-margin” property

  “top-margin”               int

The top margin for text in the text view.

Note that this property is confusingly named. In CSS terms, the value set here is padding, and it is applied in addition to the padding from the theme.

Don't confuse this property with “margin-top”.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 0

Since: 3.18

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

The “error-underline-color” style property

  “error-underline-color”    GdkColor *

Color with which to draw error-indication underlines.

Owner: GtkTextView

Flags: Read

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.

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.

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.

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.

Flags: Action

The “extend-selection” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkTextView           *text_view,
               GtkTextExtendSelection granularity,
               GtkTextIter           *location,
               GtkTextIter           *start,
               GtkTextIter           *end,
               gpointer               user_data)

The ::extend-selection signal is emitted when the selection needs to be extended at location .

Flags: Run Last

Since: 3.16

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.

Flags: Action

The “insert-emoji” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::insert-emoji signal is a keybinding signal which gets emitted to present the Emoji chooser for the text_view .

The default bindings for this signal are Ctrl-. and Ctrl-;

Flags: Action

Since: 3.22.27

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.

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.

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.

Flags: Action

The “populate-popup” signal

void
user_function (GtkTextView *text_view,
               GtkWidget   *popup,
               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 items to the popup , which will be a GtkMenu in this case.

If “populate-all” is TRUE, this signal will also be emitted to populate touch popups. In this case, popup will be a different container, e.g. a GtkToolbar.

The signal handler should not make assumptions about the type of widget , but check whether popup is a GtkMenu or GtkToolbar or another kind of container.

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.

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.

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.

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 “cursor-visible” property.

The default binding for this signal is F7.

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.

Flags: Action