[Glade-users] glade, opengl & fonts

[Tristan Van Berkom]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Peter Keller<psilord at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
[...]
> It'd be nice if I could overlay a TextWidget onto an opengl surface and
> get the signals and whatnot from it when it is "in focus".  Does such
> a thing already exist?
>

You could look at GtkSourceView, which is what gedit uses for syntax
highlighting.

Something of a rewrite of GtkSourceView using clutter would probably
produce very good results (i.e. harnessing the opengl capabilities to
make a much more featureful source editor).

Redirecting a textwidget to a buffer and drawing over cell positions
is also probably possible, but hiding this type of rendering logic inside
a textview widget implementation itself is probably cleaner and safer.

Cheers,
       -Tristan