Re: How to get a GtkLabel to fill all the available space.

["Sean Kelley" <sean sweng gmail com>]

This is a quite annoying bug - one that has bitten me just recently:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101968

Sean


On 1/10/06, Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev yandex ru> wrote:
> В Чтв, 05/01/2006 в 11:28 -0500, Hans Deragon пишет:
> > Greetings.
> >
> >
> >    Under Gnome 2.10, using glade-2, I created a simple window with
> > GtkHBox.  The GtkHBox as 3 sections, the first a small image, the second
> > a label and the tird a small button.
> >
> >    The GtkLabel is the widget that should take all the rest of available
> > space.  When clicking on it, I see that it seams to be taking it, as the
> > border shown with glade-2 confirms it.  Yet, the text I have entered,
> > multi-line and very long, seams to wrap much before the right border of
> > the widget.  I tried all sort of stuff, but could not have the text go
> > as far as the right border.  There seams to be an imaginary boundary in
> > the middle of the label where the text wraps.
> >
> >    I noticed that if I increase the width of the widget in pixels, in
> > the Properties/Common/width entry, I can sorta fix this.  But that means
> > I have to enter a specific width.  I do not want this.  I want for the
> > label to expand and wrap as the user changes the size of the window.
> >
> >    This must be a common problem.  Probably there is an easy solution I
> > simply am not to figure out.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Hans Deragon
> > --
>
> Hello Hans
>
> You are correct, it's just an internal hard-coded behaviour of the
> GtkLabel with wrapped text. If you just need to have simple label, it
> may have sense to implement your own label-like widget.
>
> Otherwise, you should look at gtk_label_ensure_layout function in gtk
> sources (there is if (label->wrap) statement). It uses quite hackish
> algorithm to determine label's width from layout width, screen width and
> so on. Of course, it can be improved. Probably you can suggest something
> better. In that case you should search bugzilla for similar bugs,
> probably create a bug in bugzilla against gtk and mail a patch to gtk-
> devel list.
>
>
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