Re: GnomeCanvasText properties (was: Re: The future of GdkFont declarations)

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

Hi,

On 5 May 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> I would think no, the attribute list would be merged with the other
> stuff when creating the layout.
> 
> "markup" is a shortcut for setting this attribute list.
> 
> Then to create the layout you copy the attr list, add "underline"
> etc., then set it on the layout.

OK this is what is happening now. So, is there anything left to do before
looking at the AA text rendering code?

> "underline" is really a bit weird, the reason CellRendererText has it
> is simply that you may want to tie it to a boolean column in the model
> (i.e. there's value in just making this a boolean toggle for a cell
> renderer). Maybe there's no real reason to do that for CanvasText.

it will be useful for clickable URIs in GnomeAbout, to easily underline
the text in mouse-over events

> > Strike-through is not rendered properly (either from a marked up text or
> > by explicitly turning it on) -- is it a Pango limitation or am I doing
> > something wrong here?
> 
> Bug in something. ;-) It seems to render properly in the text widget
> demo in gtk-demo; does that work on your machine?

testtext works, but modifying testgtk to display a strikethrough string in
the Label demo doesn't (I'm using <span strikethrough="true"> to test it)

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