Re: gtk.HTML class nonexistent [was: Re: [pygtk] Computing optimum size of gtkhtml2.View]

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 19:20 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> qt4 has support for "Rich Text" - simple things like "< b >hello< /b >" can be
> detected and displayed, and the size of the box is "enforced" as a minimum width
> and height onto the application.
> 
> it's _essential_ that GTK have similar such functionality.  implementing these
> features "outside" of the core gtk widget set - using pygtk2 alone - registers
> on the "awkward to literally impossible" scale.

What's wrong with using gtk.Label("<b>hello</b>", use_markup=True) ?


Sven

PS: Please note that I didn't test this code. The exact syntax may be a
    litte bit different. But I am sure you will figure it out.