Editable.getChars

string getChars(int startPos, int endPos)

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.

Parameters

`startPos`	start of text
`endPos`	end of text

Returns

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.