Re: how to get the width of a string

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

Once you have the pango layout, check out the following for how to use
the layout's set_ellipsize method: 
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classPango_1_1Layout.html#a41

Bob

Marco Scholten wrote:

>
>> 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,
>> so, my question is how to get the width of the specify string with
>> default font style.
>> Thanks for any hint!
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> something like:
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> Glib::RefPtr<Pango::Layout> layout;
> layout = m_entry.create_pango_layout("");
> layout->set_markup("<span font_desc=\"sans 12\">some text</span>");
> int LayoutWidth, LayoutHeight;
> layout->get_size(LayoutWidth, LayoutHeight);
> double text_width = LayoutWidth / PANGO_SCALE;
>
> -- 
> Marco
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