Re: text size in pango

[Fritz Ganter <ganter ganter at>]

Am Mit, 2003-05-07 um 07.23 schrieb Evan Martin:
> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 02:08:06AM +0200, Fritz Ganter wrote:
> > I draw my text with gdk_draw_layout_with_colors, but need to know the
> > size of the string. In GTK-1.2 I did this with
> > k = gdk_text_width (smalltextfont, txt, strlen (txt));
> > I need the same in pango, to draw a box around it and to position the
> > text on the graphic.
>
> Look at the "Text Handling in GTK 2" section of
> http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/porting/
I read it, but can't find the functions:
If found here
When asking for text metrics, such as the size of a PangoLayout, you'll
notice that all Pango objects have a "logical size" and an "ink size."
The logical size corresponds to the font metrics (ascent and descent),
and should be used to position text. The logical size for a line of
text...blablub

But with which function to use?

People, GTK2 is really cool, but documentation of this pango stuff is
poor.
3 lines of example code would save hours of searching for docu. In
gtk-demo is nothing about it.


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