Re: how to get the width of a string

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

>>there is a entry in my window, so I want to put a string to the entry
>> box.
>>if the string is too long to fit the entry, so I need cut the string to
>> be
>>like this:
>>aaaaaa...bbb,

Note that the Label has this feature automatically, though I don't think
the Entry does:
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1Label.html#a60

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