From: Michael Fasolino <Michael_Fasolino raytheon com>
To: "Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>
Cc: gtkmm-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Text Entry Box - text alignment
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:54:00 -0600
I am currently porting an existing tool
to be platform independent, so in order to keep the same look and feel,
I would like to use a Text Entry box. If it ends up that I can't
do what needs to be done with the text box, than I will switch over to
the FileChooserButton. Also, after searching for a while to
find a way to align the text (when it is longer than the text entry can
display) and not being able to find anything in gtkmm, I am kind of curious
to hear if there is solution I am missing:)
On 2/20/07, Michael Fasolino <Michael_Fasolino raytheon com>
wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I am using a Text Entry box (GtkEntry), and am trying to find
a way to
> align the text in such a way that when the text is longer than the
entry box
> can display, it will display the last part of the text and not the
first.
>
> Specifically, I am allowing the user to enter in a file name
(with path).
> I also have a button to allow the user to create the "next"
output file
> (which adds an index to the existing file name). My problem
is that when I
> hit the "Next" button the alignment of the text in the Entry
Box slides to
> the beginning of the file name, and thus all I am able to see is the
> directory structure and not the file name.
>
> It seemed alining the text so the last part would be visible
should be
> possible, but I could not find how to do it anywhere in the documentation...
> Is there something that I am missing?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Would you be able to use FileChooserButton? Or do you need it to
be a
text entry? FileChooserButton just shows the filename portion by
default, and I believe it was designed specifically for this sort of a
situation.
