Re: Scrolling/keeping textArea down (episode III)

[Lee <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/25/25 8:38 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just committed a dirty hacky fix to workaround the utterly stupid broken design of the GTK3+ GtkTextView widget used for 
> implementing the TextArea control.
>
> I had to use private GTK+3 structures, so it may break in older or future releases of GTK+3 different than mine.
>
> You will tell me, and I will adapt the fix if problems arise.

Since you have gotten no response (perhaps Dmitry no longer cares), I went ahead and compiled 'master' from source.

With Gianluigi's simple code (shown below), .EnsureVisible seems to work quite well -- with one exception.

If the content of the TextArea is scrolled all the way to the top with the mouse wheel, not by dragging the srollbar, when new 
text is added, by clicking Button1, it is not made fully visible until the mouse cursor re-enters the TextArea control. 
Personally, I could live with that.

Thank you for your effort, Benoît.

[code]
Public Sub Form_Open()

  Dim s As String = File.Load("./lorem.txt")
  TextArea1.Text = s
  TextArea1.EnsureVisible

End


Public Sub Button1_Click()

  TextArea1.Text &= "\n" & TextBox1.Text
  TextArea1.EnsureVisible

End
[/code]


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Lee

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