On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 00:47 +0100, Jérôme wrote: > I don't understand how a label width can be specified in chars. > Does this refer to a conventional width, that may depend on the font size ? > For instance, if I set a width of 10 chars, and I'm not using a monospace > font, there won't be the same amount of space left whether my string is > '..........' or 'mmmmmmmmmm'. > http://pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gtklabel.html
Correct, AFAIK. Given the current font/size width-charts dynamically [attempts to] size the label. This is part of Pango's pango_font_description_... stuff I believe. A given font/size has a default or average width for a character used for geometry calculations. > "width-chars" > Read-Write > The desired width of the label, in characters. If this property is set to -1, > the width will be calculated automatically, otherwise the label will request > either 3 characters or the property value, whichever is greater. Allowed > values: >= -1. Default value: -1. Available in GTK+ 2.6 and above. -- System & Network Administrator [ LPI & NCLA ] <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us> Adam Tauno Williams _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
