Re: text size in pango

[Evan Martin <martine cs washington edu>]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 02:08:06AM +0200, Fritz Ganter wrote:
> I draw my text with gdk_draw_layout_with_colors, but need to know the
> size of the string. In GTK-1.2 I did this with
> k = gdk_text_width (smalltextfont, txt, strlen (txt));
> I need the same in pango, to draw a box around it and to position the
> text on the graphic.

Look at the "Text Handling in GTK 2" section of
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/porting/

(shamelessly copied from Havoc's post a week ago :P)

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