Post made by apurva

hey,
i really appreciate the efforts that you are making to make life simpler for absolute noobs like me
i am trying to develop a spam filter and for demo purposes, simulating a mail viewer too(in glade+pygtk)

Now, im getting stuck at a very trivial place.
I display a particular mail in a TextView... but if i choose another mail, it is getting appended placed at the cursor position(since i use insert_at_cursor for the textbuffer), but actually, the previous mail should be cleared first, and then this 1 should be displayed.
i set_overwrite(True) for the TextView object before printing, yet, the textview is not cleared.
where am i going wrong??

Sorry guys I'm not exactly sure how to move posts just yet, so I decided to do it this way just to get it done quickly.

You should take a look at my second WordPy tutorial: WordPy 0.2 - Using XML to Save and Load Data

In there I use a simple function to set all of the text in the gtk.TextView:


def set_post_text(self, text):
"""Simple Helper function that sets the text
in the text View.
@param text - The text that will be put into
the text view.
"""
#select all of the text
start, end = self.txtBuffer.get_bounds()
self.txtBuffer.select_range(end,start)
#insert over the selection i.e. replace all the text
self.insert_text(text)
#put the selection at the end.
start, end = self.txtBuffer.get_bounds()
self.txtBuffer.select_range(end,end)


You should be able to use that function to either clear your gtk.TextView (set_post_text("")) or set it to your new email (set_post_text(email_text)).

I hope this helps.

selsine.

Ahh neat idea example010!