EditableT.getChars

Retrieves a sequence of characters. The characters that are retrieved are those characters at positions from @start_pos up to, but not including @end_pos. If @end_pos is negative, then the characters retrieved are those characters from @start_pos to the end of the text.

Note that positions are specified in characters, not bytes.

template EditableT(TStruct)
string
getChars
(,
int endPos
)

Parameters

startPos int

start of text

endPos int

end of text

Return Value

Type: string

a pointer to the contents of the widget as a string. This string is allocated by the #GtkEditable implementation and should be freed by the caller.

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