[pygtk] Rectangular Selection in gtk.TextView

[Wildemar Wildenburger]

Oops! This was meant to go to the pygtk list. Mixup on my part, sorry.

Not that I would lament comments from the general python crowd, though. ;)

/W

Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> John Ehresman wrote:
>> I may be wrong here, but I suspect TextView does not support 
>> rectangular selections.  I haven't seen mention of rectangular 
>> selections when I've worked with it and a quick google search seems to 
>> confirm this.
>>
> That is my experience too; I was hoping that there might be a way to 
> draw custom selections without implementing a whole new TextView (it 
> would help if you could at least turn off the drawing of the selection; 
> then you could maybe draw custom borders around selections).
> 
> If anyone has any thoughts on this, I would like to hear them. 
> Otherwise, ... oh well ... even GTK isn't perfect ... :(
> 
> /W