Re: Bring a widget to the foreground

[Jaroslav Šmíd <jardasmid gmail com>]

Don't do that. Fixed size buffers are evil for string formatting. You 
better use g_strdup_printf even though this would lead to reallocations. 
But much better then end up with cropped text.

On 01/02/2011 10:00 PM, jcupitt gmail com wrote:
> On 2 January 2011 15:39, John Emmas<johne53 tiscali co uk>  wrote:
> > To be honest, all I'm trying to do is create a button whose label font can be changed on demand.  I've 
> > managed to achieve it by using an empty button with a label on top, except that the label doesn't always stay 
> > on top!
>
> Ah, OK, yes, there's a much simpler technique.
>
> Try something like this:
>
>    txt = "some text to display";
>    font = "sans 12";
>
>    snprintf (button_text, 256,
>       "<span font_desc=\"%s\" size=\"medium\">%s</span>",
>       font, txt);
>    gtk_label_set_markup (
>      GTK_LABEL (gtk_bin_get_child (GTK_BIN (button))),
>      button_text);
>
> Assuming 'button' is a regular gtk button containing a label.
>
> John
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