Method

GtkTextBufferserialize

Declaration [src]

guint8*
gtk_text_buffer_serialize (
  GtkTextBuffer* register_buffer,
  GtkTextBuffer* content_buffer,
  GdkAtom format,
  const GtkTextIter* start,
  const GtkTextIter* end,
  gsize* length
)

Description [src]

This function serializes the portion of text between start and end in the rich text format represented by format.

formats to be used must be registered using gtk_text_buffer_register_serialize_format() or gtk_text_buffer_register_serialize_tagset() beforehand.

Available since:

2.10

Parameters

`content_buffer`	`GtkTextBuffer`
	The `GtkTextBuffer` to serialize.
	The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`format`	`GdkAtom`
	The rich text format to use for serializing.
`start`	`GtkTextIter`
	Start of block of text to serialize.
	The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`end`	`GtkTextIter`
	End of block of test to serialize.
	The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`length`	`gsize*`
	Return location for the length of the serialized data.
	The argument will be set by the function.

Return value

Returns:	An array of `guint8`
	The serialized data, encoded as `format`.
	The length of the array is in the `length` argument.
	The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.