I'm unclear how to use this object in gtk-server, as there is no gtk_text_iter_new (), there's no way to create a GtkTextIter within gtk-server's memory and so get a widget reference to pass to other functions. The GTK designers seem to assume we can create them on the stack. Frustratingly, there is a gtk_text_iter_clone () and gtk_text_iter_free (), but no way to create the first iterator to clone it. As anyone encountered this situation? Would their be support for a gtk-server builtin gtk_text_iter_new () (which would be barely 4-5 lines of C) Thanks, Ian Haywood