RE: Label text does not span width of container

["Cole Anstey" <anstey highintegritysolutions com>]

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Nicodaemus wrote:
> I have a simple program with a label on the main window.
>
> I place some text in the label and set the 'set_line_wrap' property of

> the label to True.
>
> However, when I run the script I notice that the text in the label
> does not span the entire width of the window, as there are left and
> right borders of space surrounding the label's text.

It seems that the label ignores/don't get the size request of the
window, even if I remove the window.set_size_request line and manually
try to resize the window. The layout is drawn at the same size no matter
what a window size is set.

> How do I alter the properties of the label so that the rendered text
> in the label spans the entire width of the parent window/container?
>
> I have tried using a v/hbox without success, and experimenting with
> glade and various container configurations yields the same outcome.

The label already fills the whole window.

> I do not want to alter the width of the window to match the width of
> the rendered text, but would prefer to have the width of the rendered
> text meet the left and right edges of the window (thereby also
> reducing the number of lines of text).

See at the code below for a workaround to achieve that.

  >
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import pygtk
> pygtk.require('2.0')
> import gtk
>
> class dislabel:
>   def __init__(self):
>        self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
>        self.window.connect("destroy", lambda w: gtk.main_quit())
>
>        self.window.set_title("Label with   set_line_wrap ( True )")
>        self.window.set_size_request(600, 200)
>
>        dastring = "I am feeling somewhat claustrophobic as "\
>        +"there are vertical borders of empty space to the "\
>        +"right and left of this label, even though this "\
>        +"label has been assigned the value set_line_wrap (True)."\
>        +" How do I remove these annoying spaces and have "\
>        +"the text of the label span the entire width "\
>        +"of the window/container?"
>
>        label = gtk.Label(dastring)

          label.set_size_request(*self.window.get_size_request())

>        label.set_line_wrap(True)
>
>        self.window.add(label)
>
>        self.window.show_all ()
>
> def main():
>   gtk.main()
>   return 0
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>   dislabel()
>   main()


This could be Bug #318276 which got raised a month ago by myself.