text widget in Free Pascal
lazarus / 8-Other

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Rickard · 2008-02-01 01:27

First I'd like to thank all of you who are developing lazarus and fp.

 Now to my question. I'm a newbie concerning fp and now I try to add
gtk to my pascal programs and can't understand how to make a text
widget. I've looked at both fp-gtk tutorials.

 Let's say that we have the following program and want to have a text
widget over the whole window... Does someone know what lines to add?



PROGRAM gtk-window;
USES gtk, gdk, glib;

VAR
window: pGtkWidget;

BEGIN

gtk_init(@argc, @argv);

window := gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);

gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(window), 'Test window');

gtk_container_set_border_width(GTK_CONTAINER(window), 250);


gtk_widget_show(window);

gtk_main();
END.

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bee · 2008-02-01 04:24

Why bother with direct gtk programming? Lazarus has done it for you in
a very elegant way.

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Marc · 2008-02-01 10:50

From the top of my head, I didn't check for the exact names, and I'm
to lazy to lookup the params (...) but it should give you an idea
where to look

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PROGRAM gtk-window;
USES gtk, gdk, glib;

VAR
  edit, window: pGtkWidget;
BEGIN
  gtk_init(@argc, @argv);
  window := gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
  gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(window), 'Test window');
  gtk_container_set_border_width(GTK_CONTAINER(window), 250);
  gtk_widget_show(window);

  edit := gtk_entry_new(....);
  gtk_widget_show(edit);
  gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), edit);

  gtk_main();
END.

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Rickard · 2008-02-01 22:09

Thanks! I've got inspiration from the code. Perhaps I can use:
edit := gtk_entry_set_text (GtkEntry ... );
instead of
edit := gtk_entry_new( ... );
?

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felipemdc · 2008-02-02 10:28

Just try it and find out. You can read the docs for the functions on
the gtk websit.