Pango help

[nerdy <nerds_ebook1 yahoo com>]

      Hello,

I am having some problems in displaying fonts properly using pango. 

In the following code segment, I am displaying a text at a position (50,50) in a drawing area. For a font size of 24 and family=courier, i am NOT gettting the message displayed at the exact position (50,50). The starting of the text is displaced by some pixels from position 50,50. Also I noticed that the amount displacement varies with font size and type of the font used. Is there any method to ensure that the text gets displayed in the exact position 50,50 irrespective of font
 size/family/style/weight.

                                                                                                                            
pango_layout_set_font_description (layout, lFontDesc);
pango_layout_set_text(layout, "test message", 15 );
gdk_draw_layout (lWid->window, lWid->style->fg_gc[GTK_STATE_NORMAL],50,50, layout);

The
 full code for the font display routine is given below.


void g_pango_expose(GtkWidget *lWid, gpointer data)
{
gdk_draw_rectangle (lWid->window, lWid->style->fg_gc[GTK_STATE_NORMAL], FALSE, 50, 50, 130,   30);
                                                                                                                            
 
PangoContext *          context = NULL;
PangoLayout *           layout  = NULL;
context =   gtk_widget_create_pango_context(lWid);
layout  =
 pango_layout_new(context);
                                                                                                                             
pango_layout_set_font_description (layout, lFontDesc);
pango_layout_set_text(layout, "test message", 15 );
gdk_draw_layout (lWid->window,   lWid->style->fg_gc[GTK_STATE_NORMAL],50,50,
 layout);
                                                                                                                             
g_object_unref (layout);
}

Thanks in advance for the help
nerdy

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