Re: aligning label strings

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:29:32PM +0200, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> I'm trying to put the strings of several equally sized buttons in a one
> row table in a special way:

I suppose you mean column (or I don't understand).

> ------------------------------------------
> |  F1 - first string                     |
> ------------------------------------------
> |  F2 - something completely different   |
> ------------------------------------------ 
> |  F3 - ...                              |
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> The problem for me is to deal with strings having arbitrary lengths not
> know until creation of this buttons.
> 
> What GUI structure and alignment settings would make ensure these Labels
> are appearing left aligned in a row (maybe being centered by the longest
> string)?

You can each part of the label separately to a hbox (with
appropriate alignment) and pack that hboxes to buttons.
Then use GtkSizeGroups to make the labels equally wide.

Yeti


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