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Working on Tcl script to convert gnoc::text tags into pango markup strings.

Getting working pango strings from text widget contents is not a simple issue, the various Gtk/Gnome programming sites contain many references to the possibility but.. Ok, the purposes are different - pango is only for marking up short strings. I want, however to edit pango formatted gnocl::list/tree strings in my text editor. At the moment my solution is working, albeit with rather long, messy mark-up sequences. Why? Pango doesn't allow tags to be overlapped. For example:

tag1On asdasd tag2On asdasdad tag1Off sasdasd tag2Off

Would produce an error. This would have to be:

tag1On asdasd tag2On asdasdad tag2Off tag1Off tag2On sasdasd tag2Off

So far my solution has been to create markups for each character in a string. The next step is simplifying that string.


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rick said…
have attempted to use gnocl with WinXP, but it seems there are some dll dependencies. Where may they be found?

Assistance appreciated; would like to try gnocl

Rick
4:38 am
rick said…
Have attempted to run gnocl in a winxp environment, subsequent to downloading the win32 modules from sourceforge. However, it seems that there are missing libraries/dll.

Would appreciate knowing where/how they may be obtained.

Rick
4:41 am
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