Automatically scrolling text box in PyGTK

MTK358 · 01-04-2010, 07:42 AM

I am playing around with PyGTK and come across a problem:

When I put a TextView inside a ScrolledWindow, and type text into the TextView until it reaches the edge, the cursor goes outside the viewport and I can't see what I'm typing.

How to make it so that the ScrolledWindow automatically scrolls so that the caret in the TextView is always in visible?

MTK358 · 01-04-2010, 08:23 AM

Also, how would I create a button with just the stock icon and not the label?

indienick · 01-04-2010, 09:45 AM

With regards to your first question, you don't need a ScrolledWindow around a TextView - a TextView has built-in scroll bars (according to the PyGTK2.0 Reference).

http://library.gnome.org/devel/pygtk/stable/ Here's a link to the PyGTK2.0 Reference Manual - it's worth bookmarking.

MTK358 · 01-04-2010, 10:10 AM

I tried a TextView with no ScrolledWindow, but instead of scrollbars coming up, the window got bigger to fit the text.

MTK358 · 01-04-2010, 11:26 AM

Really it just doesn't work that way for me and I can't find a method that seems related to it.

puk007 · 01-31-2010, 03:04 PM

I had the same problem, turns out, what I was doing was using "scrolledWindow.add_with_viewport(textView)". I removed that and simply used "scrolledWindow.add(textView)" and that fixed it for me

It's amazing how this has not been documented anywhere else.