Re: aligning an GtkEntry widget

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

I was going to assume that you could do something
like this:

gtk_misc_set_alignment(GTK_MISC(entry->label)), x, y);

assuming that a GtkEntry implements its text buffer
with a GtkLabel.

But it doesnt. I dont think there is a
way to do that "out-of-the-box". Unless
I'm missing something I suggest you copy-paste
the code for GtkEntry ... call it something else
... and change the "gchar *text" member of the structure
to a "GtkLabel *text" (and do the appropriate adjustments)
add an accessor function (gtk_entry_get_label()) and with that
you can do all the label functions and GtkMisc functions
usefull fot that.

(of course it would probably be more elegant to
inherit from GtkLabel .... but alot more work,
the former I think is quite trivial)

Cheers,
        -Tristan


Dimitar Haralanov wrote:
>         Hi, is there a way that I can right-align a GtkEntry? I would like to
> get the text to be always added from the left, instead of from the
> right. I looked at the API and did not find anything that might be
> helpful.
>
>         Thanx
>                 -- Mitko
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