Re: gtkLabel resize itself and resize the whole window

[Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007 gmail com>]

On 05/31/2011 03:06 PM, Maxime de Roucy wrote:
> What I want exactly is :
> When the text in the GtkLabel is too long (it exceeds the widget size),
> I want the text to get cut off by the edge of the widget. Instead of
> increasing automatically the size of the Widget (and so the whole
> window).

You can get label width with gtk_label_get_layout() and
pango_layout_get_pixel_size().

What you could do is making a little function to determine where the
text string must be cut off, depending on max width, sth like:

text length = 1
while (label width < max label width)
        text length ++

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Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007 gmail com>