Re: More on formatting a TreeViewColumn's header ...

[Daniel Kasak <dan entropy homelinux org>]

Grant McLean wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 14:12 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: 
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Thanks to muppet's hint, I've worked out how to replace whatever it is
> > that renders column headers with a Gtk2::Label. I can do pango markup on
> > it the label, which is great, but setting the alignment doesn't seem to
> > work. Should it? If not, are there any other approaches?
>
> I can't comment on whether it should or not, but a little
> experimentation showed that the label object's parent is actually a
> Gtk2::Alignment widget (but apparently not until the window has been
> rendered).
>
> I added these lines after the $window->show_all in your script:
>
>   my $parent = $label->get_parent;
>   print "label: $label  parent: $parent\n";
>   $parent->set(0.5, 0.5, 1, 1);
>
> and that resulted in a centered heading.

Excellent! Thanks a lot. That's working perfectly for me now.

Dan