Re: Table Widget and justification

[Melvin Hadasht <melvin hadasht free fr>]

Hi,

on Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:42:56 -0500 (EST),
jseymour LinxNet com (Jim Seymour) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wish to create a window that looks like this (in part)
>
> +---------------------------------+
> |         field name: <entry box> |
> | another field name: <entry box> |
> |   some other field: <entry box> |
> +---------------------------------+
>
> I figured packing labels and text entry boxes into a table widget would
> be the cleanest way to go.  But I can't seem to get the
> right-justification I want in the first column.  I've both set right
> justification on the label widget and used the non-default table attach
> to no avail-- it keeps centering the labels.
>
> So before I go tearing out what little hair I have remaining over this:
> is it perhaps not possible to do what I want to do with the table
> widget?

label justification means align all lines of the label (if the label has more
than one lines). What you look for, is setting the alignment with respect to
it's container, I think. The following should help:

gtk_misc_set_alignment(GTK_MISC(label), x_align, y_align);

where x_align is a gfloat which value is between 0.0 (left alignment) and 1.0
(right alignment), 0.5 being for centre. y_align has the same role but for the
vertical direction.

Hope this helps

Cheers

-- 
Melvin Hadasht