Re: Gtk2::CellRendererText ... one more time for the slow among us

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Oct 22, 2004, at 2:06 AM, Daniel Kasak wrote:

> I've been looking at 
> http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/pod/Gtk2/CellRendererText.html 
> and mucking around with various $cell->set() lines for the past half 
> hour, but can't figure out how to format a cell's text in bold. I've 
> got colour sorted, and I can *kinda* change the font size ( I may 
> return to this one later ... I'm getting unpredictable results ). But 
> no bold.

use Gtk2::Pango;  # get the PANGO_WEIGHT_* constants
$cellrenderertext->set (weight => PANGO_WEIGHT_BOLD);

"weight" is the boldness value; the PANGO_WEIGHT_* constants are 
predefined weight value in a number space.

the "weight-set" property tells the renderer whether to use the value 
of the "weight" property -- that is, it controls whether the renderer 
uses the weight you set in.  it appears that setting "weight" causes 
"weight-set" to be set to true, but you can use weight-set to turn bold 
on and off without having to set and unset the weight value.  gtk-demo 
does this for the example list with italics rather than weight 
(Gtk2/gtk-demo/main.pl , look for "ITALIC_COLUMN").

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