[Gnocl -the Tcl/Gtk Bindings] gnocl::richTextToolBar -working version ready...

[William J Giddings]

Not working on any academic research over the past few days has given me time to focus on completing the implementation of a simple pango/html rich text edit widget. GtkHtml was one route to take but, this is being phased out in favour of WebkitGtk (besides, GtkHtml documentation of any work simply doesn't exist). After hacking together an editory using the WebKit which itself is something of a work about. I modified the existing gnocl webkit package to offer all the basic functionality of a simple html doc editor but this required implementing Javascript calls in C procs which were then called through a Tcl front end. Apart from the package taking a second or two to load, webkitGtk will tend to crash after a while. Not much use to me! My aim is to create markup strings which can also be used for display within Gtk+ widgets during run-time, ie, marked up labels or list entries. As a glance through previous blog postings will show, I had already put together some basics, exploring the task from both the Tcl and C side of things. At the end of the day, I coded the whole lot in C and it now works fine although some care need to be taken when applying background colours. Needless to say, if there is an error in the pango markup then this won't cause a crash, the text will be stripped of any markup. Along with the editor, there's also a html-source viewer. As the widget item name suggests, this is basically a toolbar, if the -text option is set, then any pre-existing text widget can be used.

Here's a snapshot and the script that created it.

#--------------------------
# test_gtk_richTextToolBar.tcl
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#!/bin/sh
#\
exec tclsh "$0" "$@"

package require Gnocl

set txt [gnocl::text -wrapMode word -markupTags 1 -baseFont {Sans 14}]
set app(rtbar) [gnocl::richTextToolBar -text $txt -textAccelerators 1 ]

$txt configure -onChanged { $app(rtf,lab1) configure -text [$txt getMarkup start end] }
   
set vbox [gnocl::vBox]

set app(rtf,lab1) [gnocl::label -useMarkup 1 -justify left -align topLeft  -wrap 1 ]
set eb1 [gnocl::eventBox -child $app(rtf,lab1) -background white ]

$vbox add $eb1 -fill {1 1} -expand 1
$vbox add $app(rtbar)
$vbox add $txt -fill {1 1} -expand 1

gnocl::window -child $vbox -setSize 0.4

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Posted By William J Giddings to Gnocl -the Tcl/Gtk Bindings on 1/16/2014 05:15:00 pm