Re: Centering Text Within StatusBar

[Philip Van Hoof <spamfrommailing freax org>]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 15:54, Mike Dailey wrote:
> Can anyone point me to the correct info. on centering
> text within a statusbar?  Is it even possible (nothing
> I've found in the API references or GTK tutorials
> mention it)?  
>
> If it is not possible, would it be just as easy to
> create an HBOX, and place a centered text label within
> it to "mimic" a statusbar?

The label property of the GtkStatusbar is afaik not a public one so the
people on this list will kill, eat and demolish me for telling you. But,
the label in a GtkStatusBar is just a member of the _GtkStatusbar
struct. So you can access it using "yourstatusbar->label"

Then you can use all GtkLabel functions on it

So :
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkMisc.html#gtk-misc-set-alignment
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkLabel.html#gtk-label-set-justify

I have no idea why they don't create a simple macro in GtkStatusbar.h
and add documentation about it .. 

I am also stunned why it is not possible to push any widget type to a
GtkStatusbar using the API. I can give enough examples of very popular
applications that push progressbars and icons on the statusbar :-\
(browsers).

Until such stuff happens, all we can do is make hacks.. I guess. Please
do correct me if I am wrong : I would like to know about it too if both,
adding widgets of any type and getting the label, is possible using the
normal API.


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