Re: text string width and height in gtk2?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Steven Usdansky" <usdanskys rocketmail com> writes:
> I've got an app written using gtk-1.2 that I'm trying to upgrade to
> gtk-2.0.  Looking through the gdk-2.0 API documentation, I see that
> among the functions I need to upgrade are gdk_text_width() and
> gdk_text_height().  The API doc states that these functions have
> been deprecated, but give me no clue as to how I can replace their
> functionality.  I tried reading through the gtk, gdk, and Pango
> documentation, but just couldn't find what I need.  Could someone
> please point me in the right direction?  Thanks

You probably want to look at the porting guide, which is linked from 
developer.gnome.org/dotplan

short answer is use PangoLayout and pango_layout_get_pixel_extents().

Havoc