On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 14:13, Andrej Prsa wrote: > Hello! > > > I am not sure what you are trying to do but you can get the platform's > > default context object for a given layout with pango_layout_get_context. > > Well, it's just the other way around; I thought I have to create a context > in order to create a layout in order to put some text on the drawable. I > did all this with gdk_draw_string before and now I just want to > "modernize" my program to GTK+2.* policy. O;) well, I should have read my sample code better: here is something which works (it draws a vertical scale). Sorry for the mistake. This code might not build (I had to edit some stuff out of it) but it worked at one point, that's for sure :) { PangoLayout *layout; PangoContext *context; gint max_width; gint height, width; /* vertical rule */ gdk_draw_line (draw, gc, x, 0, x, display_end); /* horizontal rules + text */ gint32 y_step = display_end/n_steps; gint32 y = 0; gdouble real_y_step = ((gdouble )real_end)/((gdouble)n_steps); gdouble real_y = 0; context = gdk_pango_context_get (); layout = pango_layout_new (context); pango_layout_set_alignment (layout, PANGO_ALIGN_LEFT); max_width = 0; for (RMuint8 i = 0; i < n_steps; i++) { gdk_draw_line (draw, gc, x, y, x+10, y); gchar *str = g_strdup_printf ("%u", (guint)real_y); pango_layout_set_text (layout, str, -1); g_free (str); gdk_draw_layout (draw, gc, x, y, layout); pango_layout_get_pixel_size (layout, &width, &height); max_width = max (width, max_width); y += y_step; real_y += real_y_step; } g_assert (max_width >= 0); return max_width; } Mathieu -- Mathieu Lacage <mathieu@xxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list