ComboBoxEntry first column expand (Was: ComboBox column alignment)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 13:31 +0200, Michael Ott wrote:
> Hello Murray!
> 
> > Is there any way to make GtkComboBox (or GtkCellRendererCombo) columns
> > left justified? I have set the CellRenderer::xalign property to 0, but
> > it doesn't seem to achieve this. The center alignment is a bit odd, for
> > instance in this screenshot:
> > http://www.glom.org/screenshots/glom_data_details_related.png
> I think you on the rigth way. Please send some code snippet in which we
> can see where you set alignment

Replying a year later, because I finally found time to investigate this.

I've figured out that this is caused by  using expand=true with
gtk_cell_layout_pack_start() with the first column. That kind of makes
sense.

However, GtkComboBoxEntry and GtkCellRendererCombo don't use
pack_start() for the first column, and they default to expand=true.
GtkComboBoxEntry uses gtk_combo_box_entry_set_text_column() and
GtkCellRendererCombo use the "text-column" property.

So it there anyway to set expand=true for the first columns of these
combos, or should expand=false maybe be the default for them?


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