Re: Support of flexible label for narrow column header

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque gmail com>]

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 11:11 -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 19:39 +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Member functions like "Gtk::TreeView::append_column" provide the feature to add
> > a column to a specific view.
> > http://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/3.2/classGtk_1_1TreeView.html#a0253a5477ce006bf84fae8eb205efc73
> > 
> > They get a "Glib::ustring" as a parameter. I find that the width of
> > corresponding labels will become too big for some displayed values like small
> > numbers or from a boolean data type. Now I am looking for ways to adjust the
> > column header depending on width constraints.
> > 
> > Is a switch possible for the display of items like the following in the header?
> > - raster image
> > - vector graphic
> > - text with varying length (abbreviation, short or full label)
> 
> By using Gtk::TreeViewColumn::set_widget() on the column of the
> TreeView, it should be possible to display mostly anything that an
> application can display.

Also, I think there are methods such as set_fixed_width() and
set_sizing() for columns that control how the columns should expand,
etc.  Sorry for not having mentioned it in the original reply.

-- 
José