gtk label size

[Fernando Apesteguía <fernando apesteguia gmail com>]

Many thanks Yeti

I tried it but my gtk version doesn't support gtk_label_set_ellipsize(). In
fact I'm not sure about my gtk version. I have a gtk-2.0 directory but I
have not gtk-config so I can't perform a gtk-config --version

Best regards

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Necas (Yeti) < yeti physics muni cz>
Date: 02-ene-2006 18:44
Subject: Re: gtk label size
To: Fernando Apesteguía <fernando apesteguia gmail com>
Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 06:24:03PM +0100, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> Suppose that the window where labels are located is size-fixed. The
problem
> comes when I create the label longer enough (Great Mistake!!!).... for
most
> of languages...
> Normally the text is something like "xxxxx" but in some .po files, this is
> translated as "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxx xxxx xxxx"
>
> What is the standard way to handle this? Should I  let the string to be
> truncated by the size of the label? If this is the case,  would be a good
> idea to set a complete tool-tip text?

The standard way is to not make windows/labels/whatever
fixed-size.  If this isn't possible, use ellipsization --
see gtk_label_set_ellipsize().  Whether to add or not to add
a tooltip depends on situation, but generally it's a good
idea.

Yeti


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