HoverContext

Object Hierarchy:

Description:

[ CCode ( type_id = "gtk_source_hover_context_get_type ()" ) ]
public sealed class HoverContext : Object

Context for populating [class@HoverDisplay] contents.

`GtkSourceHoverContext` contains information about the request to populate contents for a [class@HoverDisplay].

It can be used to retrieve the [class@View], [class@Buffer], and [struct@Gtk.TextIter] for the regions of text which are being displayed.

Use [method@HoverContext.get_bounds] to get the word that was requested. [method@HoverContext.get_iter] will get you the location of the pointer when the request was made.

Namespace: GtkSource

Package: gtksourceview-5

Content:

Creation methods:

protected HoverContext ()

Methods:

public bool get_bounds (out TextIter begin, out TextIter end)
Gets the current word bounds of the hover.
public unowned Buffer get_buffer ()
A convenience function to get the buffer.
public bool get_iter (TextIter iter)
public unowned View get_view ()

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object