Re: Pango with a GtkDrawingArea? (what to use instead of GdkFont?)

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 05:07, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:09:18AM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> > 
> > - what should I use instead of GdkFont?
> 
> Pango Layouts
> 
> > - how do I get it to use the output of a GtkFontSelectionDialog
> >   (looking like "Sans 12") instead of an XLFD ("-adobe-helvetica...")?
> >   The following just results in a segfault:
> >   GdkFont *font = 
> >     gdk_font_from_description(pango_font_description_from_string("Sans 12"));
> >   and I don't want to continue to use the deprecated GdkFont anyway.
> 
> I'm not familiar with that dialog, but pango_layout_set_font_description
> accepts its kind of output.
> 
> > - what should I use instead of gdk_draw_text() to replace the second
> >   GdkFont argument after switching to Pango?
> 
> gtk_paint_layout (documentation in the Style chapter of the GTK+ API
> reference - took me a while to find it there) or gdk_draw_layout for more
> lowlevel stuff.

gtk_paint_layout() should generally be avoided; it's only real feature
is to draw text differently in the insensitive state, and it has
all sorts of confusing and possibly tricky parameters. I'd recommend
just using gdk_draw_layout().

Regards,
                                              Owen