Re: Wrapped text in GtkTreeView

[Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>]

On 6/15/05, Slou <elephantum cyberzoo ru> wrote:
> Vivien Malerba wrote:
> > > I have list of a very long lines which I want to be accessible to user
> > > with no penalty (additional clicking etc.).
> > >
> > > So the solution is obvious - wrapped text in TreeView, but I found no
> > > way to create such CellRenderer.
> > >
> > > All discussions on this subject I found are at least a year old. What is
> > > the current state of this problem?
> >
> >
> > You can either:
> > -> add a "line_wrap" property to the GtkCellRendererText object, or
>
> hmm... seems there is no such property for GtkCellRendererText [1]

I meant modifying the GtkCellRendererText source code in the GTK+
libraty itself (and maybe proposing a patch for inclusion?)

> > -> create your own GtkCellRenderer object (see
> > http://scentric.net/tutorial/treeview-tutorial.html)
>
> The problem when I try to create custom cell renderer is that I can't
> dynamically change it's height.

There is no reason about that since height calculation is done by the
virtual functions you need to write to create a GtkCellRenderer.

Vivien