Hello Owen and Rikke, thanks for your help. I decided to use the code that Owen suggested. I think it works more exactly than Rikke's code when using proportional fonts and looks at bit easier. Maybe someone of the developers could add a cross reference from the GDK manual's Fonts section to the example in the GTK manual in a spare minute. This would make it easier for newbies like me to find what they are looking for. >From "Rikke D. Giles" <rgiles@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I just did this using a PangoFontMetric. > > Here's what I did: > > PangoLayout *layout; > PangoContext *context; > PangoFontMetrics *metrics; > gchar *text_string; > gint textx, texty, char_width, string_width; > > layout = gtk_widget_create_pango_layout(widget, NULL); > > text_string = g_strdup_printf(some_text); > > pango_layout_set_text(layout, text_string, -1); > > /* want this text in the center of x-dimension and > 7/8 down the y dimension of the widget */ > textx = widget->allocation.width / 2; > texty = 7 * widget->allocation.height / 8; > > > /* find out how wide the characters are to center on textx > */ context = gtk_widget_get_pango_context(widget); > metrics = pango_context_get_metrics(context, > widget->style->font_desc, > pango_context_get_language(context)); > char_width = pango_font_metrics_get_approximate_char_width (metrics); > string_width = strlen(text_string) * PANGO_PIXELS(char_width); > > gtk_paint_layout(widget->style, widget->window, > GTK_WIDGET_STATE(widget), FALSE, > NULL, widget, "widget_name", textx - (string_width/2), texty, > layout); > > > I don't know if this is a good way to do this or not, but it worked for > me. > > Cheers, > > Rikke -- ==================================================================== Peter Krüger applied software solutions (appss) GmbH Sandtorstr. 23 D-39106 Magdeburg Germany Phone: +49-(0)391-54486-19388 Fax: +49-(0)391-54486-19222 email: krueger@xxxxxxxx URL: http://www.appss.de Managing Director: Uwe Hess, Dietmar Schäfer Register: HRB12386, AG Mageburg "Virtual business becomes reality!" This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. ==================================================================== _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
