[Glade-users] How top make scrollwindow with textview move text up

[Alexey Kurochkin]

On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 18:42 -0800, Karl Walter wrote:
> Hello.  I am just learning to use glade, and I have successfully put a
> textview inside scrollwindow, and fed text to it and it works
> perfectly, except that when the window is full of text, the newest
> text is hidden at the bottom, and you have to scroll down to see it.
>  I'd like for it to be opposite: when the textbox is full, the new
> text appears at the bottom, and the oldest goes up, and the scroll bar
> handle stays at the bottom, with space growing above it. Is there a
> way to do that? --Karl  

I did not work with textviews much, but I'd guess you could call one of
gtk_text_view_scroll_* functions after adding each portion of text. But
if it's a problem, you also can monitor vertical adjustment of the
scrolled window and force its value to be at the bottom when necessary.