Re: Example for doing gtk draw_string on a drawing area (newbie)

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Cameron Kerr said:
> According to the error message, its supposed to be of type
> Gtk::Gdk::Font, but how do I specify it?

$font = Gtk::Gdk::Font->load ($font_spec);

where $font_spec is an X font specifier string, such as "fixed" or "7x14" or
"-*-helvetica-medium-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-*", etc.



Gtk+ 2.x is readily available these days, and we're working on perl bindings
for it (just about ready for release, actually), so you may wish to use gtk2
instead.  in gtk2, this sort of thing is easier and more powerful, using pango
fonts.

  $layout = $drawing_area->create_pango_layout ($some_text);
  $font_desc = Gtk2::Pango::FontDescription->new_from_string ("sans");
  $layout->set_font_description ($font_desc);
  ...
  $drawing_area->window->draw_layout ($gc, $x_-f_left, $y_of_bottom, $layout);

there's some working sample code that does text drawing on a drawing area in
the gtk2-perl-xs respository under gtk2-perl-xs/Gtk2/examples/histogramplot.pl

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