Re: [gtkmm] Widget for viewing multi-line text

[Julian Missig <julian jabber org>]

On 19 Feb, 2004, at 13:46, Ole Laursen wrote:

> "Andreas B. Thun" <abt gmx de> writes:
>
> > IŽd like to have a widget for viewing multi-line text
> > which automatically reduces/enlarges text width when
> > the user reduces/enlarges the parent window.
> >
> > I tried a TextView, but it does not work. Text is
> > always in one line...
>
> You need to tell it to wrap the lines. I've forgotten the details, but
> they should be in the reference manual.
>
> You can also use a label and tell it to wrap the text.

Actually, labels aren't intelligent about rewrapping and resizing as 
needed when the window is resized. That's one of the things that annoys 
me the most about them, in fact... If you want rewrapping and such, 
you'll need to go with TextView or else hack up resizing stuff for 
labels yourself (or borrow someone else's code that does it).

Julian