Re: How to set the font's size of the GtkLabel?

["Dov Grobgeld" <dov grobgeld gmail com>]

Hi Tomas,

You are certainly right The style method is more suited when you want to
change additional properties like background color, etc. I stand corrected.

Regards,
Dov

2008/8/28 Tomas Carnecky <tom dbservice com>

> Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> > Hi Lazy (great name),
> >
> > The way to do it is to set the name of the label through:
> >
> >     gtk_widget_set_name(label, "foo");
> >
> > and then define a style for the name "foo", that includes a font
> > specification:
> >
> >     gtk_rc_parse_string("style \"foo\" {\n"
> >                                   "    font = \"Serif 32\"\n"
> >                                   "}\n"
> >                                   );
>
> Ugh, that's complicated. An easier way is:
>
> GtkLabel *label = gtk_label_new("");
> gtk_label_set_markup(label, "<span font_desc=\"10.0\">This is a
> label</span>");
>
> See http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html
> how to use the pango markup language.
>
> > 2008/8/28 Lazy Fox <lazy fox wu gmail com>
> >
> > > I wrote the following statememts to set a GtkLabel's font size.
> > > But it seems don't work?
> > > I'm not good at Pango, can anybody help me?
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > | PangoAttrList *pg_attr_list = pango_attr_list_new();
> > > | PangoAttribute *pg_attr = pango_attr_size_new(10);
> > > |
> > > | label = gtk_label_new("This is a label");
> > > | pango_attr_list_change(pg_attr_list, pg_attr);
> > > | gtk_label_set_attributes(GTK_LABEL(label), pg_attr_list);
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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