On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:10:51AM -0700, Suma H.S wrote: > Does anyone know how to have text wrapping along with ellipsizing? > I want to have text wrapped to three lines and have ellipsis in the last > line if the text exceeds three lines. > > I have used GtkLabel and set the properties for both wrapping and > ellipsizing. > The problem that I am facing is that if I try to wrap the text and > ellipsize, the text gets reduced to a single line and the ellipsis appear.
Yes, in ellipsize mode, every `paragraph' (run of text without any forced break) is ellipsized to fit the width. You can probably achieve this ellipsization by using the more low-level functionality. Iterating over PangoLayoutLines and rendering them yourself can be a bit too low-level, however, obtaining PangoLayoutLines and then inserting corresponding hard newlines into the original text and reflowing can give an acceptable result if lines are broken only between `words' (whatever it means for the script). You can also try to measure the three lines, limit the rendering area accordingly, and then uses some graphic effect such as fade out instead of ellipsis. Or something like that. Yeti -- http://gwyddion.net/ _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
