This is a quite annoying bug - one that has bitten me just recently: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101968
Sean On 1/10/06, Nickolay V. Shmyrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > В Чтв, 05/01/2006 в 11:28 -0500, Hans Deragon пишет: > > Greetings. > > > > > > Under Gnome 2.10, using glade-2, I created a simple window with > > GtkHBox. The GtkHBox as 3 sections, the first a small image, the second > > a label and the tird a small button. > > > > The GtkLabel is the widget that should take all the rest of available > > space. When clicking on it, I see that it seams to be taking it, as the > > border shown with glade-2 confirms it. Yet, the text I have entered, > > multi-line and very long, seams to wrap much before the right border of > > the widget. I tried all sort of stuff, but could not have the text go > > as far as the right border. There seams to be an imaginary boundary in > > the middle of the label where the text wraps. > > > > I noticed that if I increase the width of the widget in pixels, in > > the Properties/Common/width entry, I can sorta fix this. But that means > > I have to enter a specific width. I do not want this. I want for the > > label to expand and wrap as the user changes the size of the window. > > > > This must be a common problem. Probably there is an easy solution I > > simply am not to figure out. > > > > > > Best regards, > > Hans Deragon > > -- > > Hello Hans > > You are correct, it's just an internal hard-coded behaviour of the > GtkLabel with wrapped text. If you just need to have simple label, it > may have sense to implement your own label-like widget. > > Otherwise, you should look at gtk_label_ensure_layout function in gtk > sources (there is if (label->wrap) statement). It uses quite hackish > algorithm to determine label's width from layout width, screen width and > so on. Of course, it can be improved. Probably you can suggest something > better. In that case you should search bugzilla for similar bugs, > probably create a bug in bugzilla against gtk and mail a patch to gtk- > devel list. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
