On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:57 -0200, Marcus Reis wrote: > hello, I have a some buttons inside a table like a matrix. Lets pick one > of this buttons, we have one vbox set as child of the button and inside > the box we have 4 labels. But we have a problem, one of this labels have > a very random width, so would be desired that this specific label does > not make requests to resize the box, or box would ignore size request > from this child, because this is actually making the window size bigger. > I have tried to reduce the string with string functions but the result > is not ideal since every time we get size available, the label will not > use it. Have tried gtk_widget_set_size_request too, but the effect is > similar. > > Any lights?
If you use Gtk 2.6 or higher you can use gtk_label_set_width_chars to set an upper bound. If you put in more characters than that, the label should ellipsize the string, see gtk_label_set_ellipsize. Hope this helps, Axel. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
