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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list