On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Bartosz "Neron" Leper wrote: Hi,
That was a bug in gdk fixed personally by me - the standard gtk-1.2.10 already contains the fix - so please upgrade your gtk to version 1.2.10. Best regards, -Vlad > Hello there, > > I'm new here and I'm from Poland, so I'm sorry for my weak English. But I'll > try to explain what's on my mind. > > I'm using Mandrake Linux and I've experienced some problems with displaying > GTK widgets: all applications I have that are written using GTK are > calculating word length incorrectly, which causes labels unreadable in some > cases. > > It happens when I use non-monospace fonts (in Poland we say: proportional > fonts). Nearly each word is displayed correctly, but every space between > words is somehow "strange": sometimes it's normal, somtimes it's illogically > wide (when the word consists of narrow letters, like 'iiii', and sometimes > even "space" means "backspace" (when the word consists of many wide letters, > like 'WWWWW'). I think it's because GTK (or GDK?) counts word width as if it > was written in monospace font (like Courier)! > > Simmilar thing happens in edit boxes (sorry for that Win32 terminology), and > it's even worse: when I try to put caret into box using mouse, I click > between two letters, but the actual point of inserting text appears to be > somewhere else - it's also sounted using monospace font width! > > I am running GTK version 1.2.8-6mdk, but I don't know if it really matters, > because nearly all applications I have are pre-compiled. > > Please help me, because it's really annoying! I don't know if I refer to > appropriate mailing list; if you know some other places to find some info, > please mail me. > > Thanks in anvance, > Nero > > -- > ------====[Bartosz "Neron" Leper]====------ > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | IRC: #warsztat > www.nerosite.prv.pl | www.programex.prv.pl > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list