Virtual Method

GtkEntryBufferdelete_text

since: 2.18

Declaration [src]

guint
delete_text (
  GtkEntryBuffer* buffer,
  guint position,
  guint n_chars
)

Description [src]

Deletes a sequence of characters from the buffer. n_chars characters are deleted starting at position. If n_chars is negative, then all characters until the end of the text are deleted.

If position or n_chars are out of bounds, then they are coerced to sane values.

Note that the positions are specified in characters, not bytes.

Available since: 2.18

Parameters

position

Type: guint

Position at which to delete text.

n_chars

Type: guint

Number of characters to delete.

Return value

Type: guint

The number of characters deleted.