On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 10:31, Peter Krueger wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering what functions I should use in GTK 2.2.2 to calculate the > size of some text. I need this information for instance for calculating > the position of some text that I want to draw inside a GtkDrawingArea. > The mailing list archive and tutorial / API documentation doesn't seem to > have an answer to this question (or at least I didn't find it). > All I found is that everything relating to GdkFont is now deprecated, but > there are no hints what could be used instead. > As far as I understand the font of a widget will be specified now by a > PangoFontDescription like this: > PangoFontDescription *font_desc = pango_font_description_from_string( > szFontName); > gtk_widget_modify_font(pGTKLabel, font_desc); > > So how do I get the ascent, descent and width of some "gchar*"-text > before it is actually displayed using a given PangoFontDescription? See questions 1.11 and 1.12 in http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-question-index.html Regards, Owen _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
