Pango probably is "the right way to do it;" an alternative is to use Cairo's "toy text API," described here:
http://www.cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Text.html This has a pretty straightforward approach, e.g.: ... cairo_select_font_face(cr, "Trebuchet MS", CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_BOLD, CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_OBLIQUE); cairo_set_font_size(cr, 24); cairo_show_text(cr, "example"); ... One can create a Cairo context from a GdkDrawable using gdk_cairo_create(). Of course, if you're really planning on doing a lot of text manipulation, using Pango may be better. (Never really played with it personally.) -Andrew On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 16:20 +0100, Bernd Muent wrote: > Hi together, > I (only) want to draw a red text "Example" or whatever in the middle of > a GtkDrawable. > First I looked at gdk_draw_text. > I did not find out how to draw a text in a specific color. > And the other problem is that the documentation says that it is deprecated. > I should use Pango rendering. > But I got lost somewhere between PangoFontDefintions etc. etc. and did > not find an example with google. > Who can explain me how to use Pango or whatever for my purpose? > > Thanks für tips, Bernd > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
