Re: How to make GtkLabel fills like GtkTextView?

["Ardhan Madras" <ajhwb knac com>]

Who wrote GTK+ 2.18.9 gtk_label_set_line_wrap() manual  ;p ?

              Ardhan


--- tvb gnome org wrote:

From: Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>
To: ajhwb knac com
Cc: Tao Wang <dancefire gmail com>, gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: How to make GtkLabel fills like GtkTextView?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:31:15 -0400

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Ardhan Madras <ajhwb knac com> wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what is the case to use 'GtkTextView' instead of 'GtkLabel'
> > to display a text with several sentences(< 100 words) in not editable way?
>
> Maybe for `beauty' looks, the author want the text wrapped as it's parent container width that GtkLabel 
> can't do.
>
> > How to make GtkLabel fill the entire range, just like what GtkTextView did?
>
> As the doc says: You can't not make the label wrap at its parent container's width, because GTK+ widgets 
> conceptually can't make their requisition depend on the parent container's size. GtkLabel only wrap-able at 
> a given specific position.

Curiously which docs still say that ?

FWIW, GTK+ 3.0 will wrap labels to their allocated width.

Cheers,
           -Tristan


> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Ardhan
>
>
> --- dancefire gmail com wrote:
>
> From: Tao Wang <dancefire gmail com>
> To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: How to make GtkLabel fills like GtkTextView?
> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:08:25 +1000
>
> Hi,
>
> Some of the code I'm working on is using 'GtkTextView' to display text,
> which is just few sentences, rather than GtkLabel. I don't know why, Can
> anyone tell me what is the case to use 'GtkTextView' instead of 'GtkLabel'
> to display a text with several sentences(< 100 words) in not editable way?
>
> I tried to replace those GtkTextView with GtkLabel, which set wrap to
> 'word', the result is different. Here is the screenshot:
> http://i48.tinypic.com/n1os9f.png . I put the GtkTextView and GtkLabel to
> seperate GtkScrolledWindow, which disabled both scrollbar. The above is the
> GtkTextView, it expend to entire GtkScrolledWindow, and the below is the
> GtkLabel, it's only in a small range in the middle of the GtkScrolledWindow.
> How to make GtkLabel fill the entire range, just like what GtkTextView did?
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
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>
> Tao Wang
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