Virtual Method

Gtk.EntryBuffer.insert_text

Declaration [src]

guint
insert_text (
  GtkEntryBuffer* buffer,
  guint position,
  const char* chars,
  guint n_chars
)

Description [src]

Inserts n_chars characters of chars into the contents of the buffer, at position position.

If n_chars is negative, then characters from chars will be inserted until a null-terminator is found. If position or n_chars are out of bounds, or the maximum buffer text length is exceeded, then they are coerced to sane values.

Note that the position and length are in characters, not in bytes.

Parameters

position guint
 

the position at which to insert text.

chars const char*
 

the text to insert into the buffer.

 Ownership is not transferred to the callee
 The string is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string
n_chars guint
 

the length of the text in characters, or -1

Return value

Returns: guint

The number of characters actually inserted.