Re: Label and wrap text (Preben Randhol)

[Irv Mullins <irvm ellijay com>]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:37:54AM +0200, David Necas (Yeti) wrote:

> > This doesn't help -- in fact, it doesn't even seem to do
> > what it should do, I get ragged right text like with
> > GTK_JUSTIFY_LEFT (GTK_JUSTIFY_RIGHT works, though).
> >
> > A simple test case is atached to this mail.  The question is
> > how to make the long text fill window width like the
> > progress bar does.  An ugly workaround is to compute the
> > right width manually from other widgets and use
> > gtk_widget_set_size_request().
>  

Yes, I have come to same conclusions more or less  :-(  I'll have to
experiment a bit I think.

You could perhaps substitue a text_view, set non-editable. That 
control does adjust the text to fill the space available.

Irv


Preben