Re: word wrap in liststore column

[Mick <bareman tpg com au>]

On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:19:51 +0200
Florian Müllner <florian muellner gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> El dom, 27-06-2010 a las 12:25 +1000, Mick escribió:
> > I know that, I have searched but not found anything that says "this
> > is how you set the properties of ..."
>
> ... an GObject:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/stable/gobject-The-Base-Object-Type.html#g-object-set
>
>
> > what I'm trying to do is set wrap-width to 60 characters and
> > wrap-mode to word somewhat like this:
> >
> > GtkSomeObscureFunction(list->action, wrap-width = 60, 
> >                     wrap-mode = PANGO_WRAP_WORD);
>
> So GtkSomeObscureFunction becomes:
>
> g_object_set (G_OBJECT (cell_renderer),
>               "wrap-width", 60,
>               "wrap-mode", PANGO_WRAP_WORD,
>               NULL);
>
>
> > I also wish to set alternate rows backgrounds to white or pale blue,
> > how is this done?
>
> To enable different background colors for alternate rows, set the
> rules-hint property of the view to TRUE:
>
> gtk_tree_view_set_rules_hint (view, TRUE);
>
> This will leave the color choices to the theme, which is generally
> what you want.
Thanks, a clear answer to question 1 and 1.5 answers to question 2, I
didn't notice the gtk_tree... way ontil after I guessed how to gobject
set it, out of interest, which is better? 

/|/|ik