Re: Hacking on the new widget

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:45:13AM -0500, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 19:30 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > 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
> Good idea, will do - once I have some time to hack on it :-(

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