Re: Hacking on the new widget

David Malcolm wrote:
> As you may know, we now have the a new widget implementation in CVS HEAD
> (merged in from the WidgetPlayground branch thanks to nsh).
> 
> You can see the state of the problems with the editor widget here:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=143769
> 
> I did some hacking on the editor widget over the weekend; the most
> broken thing was the word-wrapping and resizing.  After my hacking
> efforts, this now works a lot better: text should flow properly to take
> account of the current width.
> 
> Unfortunately I think at some point I broke span tags; they appear OK
> when you add a new one, but don't seem to work when you open an existing
> document that contains one (filed as bug #159773).
> 
> I hope to have a go at fixing these various issues at some point soon,
> but we should put out a tarball as well.   What might be most useful for
> me to do is to write up some notes on how the new widget works.  That
> might make it easier for other people to hack on the code (filed as bug
> #160002).  There's also some primitive steps towards having proper table
> editing.

I suggest that you describe the new widget code.
That makes it easier for other programmers to contribe to the project.

Please use "gtk-doc" for it.
So it will appear at http://gtkdoc.conglomerate.org


Cheers
Geert Stappers