> if there's a way to enforce the displaying of text - for the _text_ > to say "i need to be a total area of X in order to display my words. > if you make my width too small, i will _force_ my height to be larger > as i wrap the text". > > just like an HTML <p> </p> does.
... of course, i'm well aware of the reasons _why_ this isn't supported - in either of Qt4 or Gtk2. it's because automatic- resizing, and correct (i.e. exact) size-hinting, is a complete lairy nightmare to implement. browsers get it right, because they have to, and the trade-off is a rather awkward judder-judder-displaying of content (which, for example, gives the use of HTML tables such a bad name). all of which of course makes the desktop-app developers' job just that little bit more awkward... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
