[pygtk] Styling a text view across the visible line

[Scott Ferguson]

Perfect.  Thanks!!

Regards,

Scott Ferguson


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:35 PM, John Finlay <finlay at moeraki.com> wrote:

> Scott Ferguson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to build an integrated diff tool for an app that I'm writing,
>> and I am styling the text to make certain parts of the diff more visible
>> (adds are green, removes are red, etc).  Typical look and feel of a diff
>> viewer.
>> The styling includes a background and foreground color.  Currently I'm
>> iterating over each line of the gtk.TextBuffer, creating an ending iterator
>> at the next line, and styling everything between the line start, and the
>> start of the following line.  My issue is that I would like the background
>> color to carry straight across the gtk.TextView, not end where the line ends
>> (on the '\n' character).  A single line should have a highlight from left to
>> right.
>>
>> Is this possible with a stock gtk.TextView?  My current formatting
>> function can be found here: http://gist.github.com/206387
>>
>>  Try setting the 'paragraph-background' property of the tag.
>
> John
>
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