Re: getting string width.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Markus Lausser <sgop users sourceforge net> writes:
> I used to get a string width with the function:
>   gdk_string_width(font, text);
>
> I took a look at the gdk online reference and there i read:
> "gdk_string_width is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code."
>
> Ok, but what function should is used instead??

You are reading the GTK 2 docs, if you are using GTK 1.2 you should
ignore that comment, because GTK 1.2 has no replacement for that
function.

If you're using GTK 2 betas, then you should be using Pango stuff
instead of GdkFont.

Havoc