Hey Florian and group,
Thank you man. I did not know about tab stops. This looks really good.
I shall try this out.
Best Regards,
Karan Ahuja
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Florian Müllner <fmuell...@gnome.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> this is not a question about the development of GTK+, but about using GTK+
> for app development - gtk-app-devel-list is a better place for this, so
> moving there.
>
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:10 PM Karan Ahuja <karan26.ah...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I wish to display 3 lines in gtk textview as below
>>
>> software-lumapix +2000
>> software-adigiprints +3000
>> software-yst +3000
>>
>> on command line i see the strings as above as required.
>>
>
> That is beccause terminals usually use monospace fonts, that is every
> character takes up the same width. So using a fixed character could for
> alignment works in that context ...
>
>
>
>> but when i copy the output from commandline to gtk text view or gmail
>> here or use
>> set_text method on the text buffer - the alignment is lost and i see this
>>
>> software-lumapix +2000
>> software-adigiprints +3000
>> software-yst +3000
>>
>
>
> ... while it doesn't in contexts where variable-width fonts are used
> (where for example "l" and "i" take up less width than "m" and "w").
>
>
> my simple code is as below in python gtk+
>>
>> str1 = '{message: <{width}}'.format(message="software-lumapix", width=50)
>> str1 = str1+'+2000'
>> print str1
>> str2 = '{message: <{width}}'.format(message="software-adigiprints",
>> width=50)
>> str2 = str2+'+3000'
>> print str2
>> str3 = '{message: <{width}}'.format(message="software-yst", width=50)
>> str3 = str3+'+3000'
>> print str3
>> self.view.get_buffer().set_text(str1+'\n'+str2+'\n'+str3)
>>
>>
>> Please guide - how can i align the numbers right aligned.
>>
>
> One option is to set custom tab stops with gtk_text_view_set_tabs(), and
> then append '\t' to each string on the left instead of setting a character
> width.
>
> Cheers,
> Florian
>
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