Method

GtkTextBufferget_slice

Declaration [src]

gchar*
gtk_text_buffer_get_slice (
  GtkTextBuffer* buffer,
  const GtkTextIter* start,
  const GtkTextIter* end,
  gboolean include_hidden_chars
)

Description [src]

Returns the text in the range [start,end). Excludes undisplayed text (text marked with tags that set the invisibility attribute) if include_hidden_chars is FALSE. The returned string includes a 0xFFFC character whenever the buffer contains embedded images, so byte and character indexes into the returned string do correspond to byte and character indexes into the buffer. Contrast with gtk_text_buffer_get_text(). Note that 0xFFFC can occur in normal text as well, so it is not a reliable indicator that a pixbuf or widget is in the buffer.

Parameters

start

Type: GtkTextIter

Start of a range.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

end

Type: GtkTextIter

End of a range.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

include_hidden_chars

Type: gboolean

Whether to include invisible text.

Return value

Type: gchar*

An allocated UTF-8 string.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.