[SOLVED] Re: Prevent gtk_label from request resize to parent

[Marcus Reis <marcus lanhelp com br>]

Em Sex, 2005-12-02 Ãs 08:25 +0000, Axel Simon escreveu:
> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:57 -0200, Marcus Reis wrote:
> > hello, I have a some buttons inside a table like a matrix. Lets pick one
> > of this buttons, we have one vbox set as child of the button and inside
> > the box we have 4 labels. But we have a problem, one of this labels have
> > a very random width, so would be desired that this specific label does
> > not make requests to resize the box, or box would ignore size request
> > from this child, because this is actually making the window size bigger.
> > I have tried to reduce the string with string functions but the result
> > is not ideal since every time we get size available, the label will not
> > use it. Have tried gtk_widget_set_size_request too, but the effect is
> > similar.
> >
> > Any lights?
>
> If you use Gtk 2.6 or higher you can use gtk_label_set_width_chars to
> set an upper bound. If you put in more characters than that, the label
> should ellipsize the string, see gtk_label_set_ellipsize.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Axel.
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