Re: aligning label strings

[Marc Santhoff <M Santhoff t-online de>]

Am Mo, den 11.04.2005 schrieb David Necas (Yeti) um 21:54:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:29:32PM +0200, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> > I'm trying to put the strings of several equally sized buttons in a one
> > row table in a special way:
>
> I suppose you mean column (or I don't understand).

Yes, of course. Sorry. X-)

> > ------------------------------------------
> > |  F1 - first string                     |
> > ------------------------------------------
> > |  F2 - something completely different   |
> > ------------------------------------------ 
> > |  F3 - ...                              |
> > ------------------------------------------
> >
> > The problem for me is to deal with strings having arbitrary lengths not
> > know until creation of this buttons.
> >
> > What GUI structure and alignment settings would make ensure these Labels
> > are appearing left aligned in a row (maybe being centered by the longest
> > string)?
>
> You can each part of the label separately to a hbox (with
> appropriate alignment) and pack that hboxes to buttons.
> Then use GtkSizeGroups to make the labels equally wide.

I'll try, thanks for the quick response!

Marc