Re: customized alignment in gtk text view

[Karan Ahuja <karan26 ahuja gmail com>]

Hey Florian and group,

Thank you man. I did not know about tab stops. This looks really good.

I shall try this out.

Best Regards,
Karan Ahuja


On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> this is not a question about the development of GTK+, but about using GTK+
> for app development - gtk-app-devel-list is a better place for this, so
> moving there.
>
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:10 PM Karan Ahuja <karan26 ahuja gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > I wish to display 3 lines in gtk textview as below
> >
> > software-lumapix                                  +2000
> > software-adigiprints                              +3000
> > software-yst                                          +3000
> >
> > on command line i see the strings as above as required.
>
> That is beccause terminals usually use monospace fonts, that is every
> character takes up the same width. So using a fixed character could for
> alignment works in that context ...
>
>
>
> > but when i copy the output from commandline to gtk text view or gmail
> > here or use
> > set_text method on the text buffer - the alignment is lost and i see this
> >
> > software-lumapix                                  +2000
> > software-adigiprints                              +3000
> > software-yst                                      +3000
>
>
> ... while it doesn't in contexts where variable-width fonts are used
> (where for example "l" and "i" take up less width than "m" and "w").
>
>
> my simple code is as below in python gtk+
> > str1 = '{message: <{width}}'.format(message="software-lumapix", width=50)
> > str1 = str1+'+2000'
> > print str1
> > str2 = '{message: <{width}}'.format(message="software-adigiprints",
> > width=50)
> > str2 = str2+'+3000'
> > print str2
> > str3 = '{message: <{width}}'.format(message="software-yst", width=50)
> > str3 = str3+'+3000'
> > print str3
> > self.view.get_buffer().set_text(str1+'\n'+str2+'\n'+str3)
> >
> >
> > Please guide - how can i align the numbers right aligned.
>
> One option is to set custom tab stops with gtk_text_view_set_tabs(), and
> then append '\t' to each string on the left instead of setting a character
> width.
>
> Cheers,
> Florian