On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 07:09:40AM +0200, Richard Boaz wrote: > so far, all discussion of this problem has related to whether or not a > solution resides wholly withing gtk/pango/cairo/whatever. > > it would seem to me that the fact that gtk/pango/cairo/whatever does not > provide a built-in solution for chinese style justification only means > that the solution must be found elsewhere. > > namely, before rendering the label string, provide your own function that > creates the string exactly as you would want it to be displayed, simply > using spaces to fill out the string accordingly, and then provide this new > string to render the label. > > whynot? How do you achieve an exact width just by adding spaces? If the program is Chinese-only and gives up the possibility to be ever internationalized right away, well, one can create a Pango layout, measure all the glyphs in the label, calculate the space to put between them and then render the glyphs one by one to the calculated positions -- this all encapsulated in a new widget, something like MyChineseSpreadLabel. Of course this assumes there is an easy way to tell how a string is broken to glyphs for Chinese. Yeti -- Anonyms eat their boogers. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
