On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 09:02 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 21:13 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: > > On 22 February 2011 20:30, Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> > > wrote: > > > available space - just wrap incorrectly. Any hints for displaying > > > multi-lined / long-lined text in a label more elegantly? > > I think I've had the same problem. You may be interested in this: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1893748/pygtk-dynamic-label-wrapping/1911179#1911179 > > ...which I've used with good results. > You get a gold star! This works. > I put the method - > def label_size_allocate_hack(widget, allocation): > "Callback which re-allocates the size of a label." > layout = widget.get_layout() > lw_old, lh_old = layout.get_size() > # fixed width labels > if lw_old / pango.SCALE == allocation.width: > return > # set wrap width to the pango.Layout of the labels > layout.set_width(allocation.width * pango.SCALE) > lw, lh = layout.get_size() # lw is unused. > if lh_old != lh: > widget.set_size_request(-1, lh / pango.SCALE) > in my hacks.py file, and then the labels seem to be behave more > sanely, at least horizontally. > Now they are jumping up and down vertically within the vbox when the > window is resized. Hmm.
Commenting out the last two lines of the hack method seems to have, at least at a cursory inspection, solved the vertical issue. # if lh_old != lh: # widget.set_size_request(-1, lh / pango.SCALE) _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
