Re: Text layout in a GtkLabel

["Milosz Derezynski" <internalerror gmail com>]

You can use gtk_label_set_markup() and set the internal Layout of the
Label using Pango markup, or use gtk_label_get_layout() (it's safe to
call this function without realizing the widget first); that way
actually have the Label's/a PangoLayout and can modify it as you were
used to. There's also gtk_label_get/set_attributes() by which you
don't need to get the actual Layout but that runs down to the same
thing.

M.

2008/10/30 Ian Puleston <ian underpressuredivers com>:
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> Hi,
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> I've implemented a help mechanism where clicking on a help icon pops up a
> help message, and am using a GtkMessageDialog to do it. It's pretty simple
> and is working fine, except that in one case I want to display a numbered
> list and to make it look neat I want to have all the text apart from the
> numbers indented. But I can't find an easy way to do that with a GtkLabel
> which is what the GtkMessageDialog uses to display the text.
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> The GtkLabel supports setting a Pango attributes list or text with Pango
> meta formatting, but that is all character formatting. I think I could
> achieve what I want using a Pango layout, but I can't see any way to use
> that with a GtkLabel.
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> Anyone know if there's any way to format the layout of text in a GtkLabel?
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> Otherwise, what would be the best widget to use to display text with a
> layout like this?
>
> Ian
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