Re: How to create a simple multilingual GUI

2007-05-13 Thread Yeti
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:14:19AM +0300, Gabriel Schulhof wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 02:19 +0200, David Nečas (Yeti) wrote: > > Run-time switching of languages is not > > possible http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313736 > > Oh, it's possible, just very difficult. You have to keep all

Re: How to create a simple multilingual GUI

2007-05-13 Thread Gabriel Schulhof
Hi! On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 02:19 +0200, David Nečas (Yeti) wrote: > Run-time switching of languages is not > possible http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313736 Oh, it's possible, just very difficult. You have to keep all your user-string-displaying widgets in a list, and set the label/text

Re: points, pixels, fonts and pango

2007-05-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 16:38 -0700, Pawel S. Veselov wrote: [...] > - what is the Pango font size, and is it portable across rendering engines ? > Now, that really to me seems to be a very basic question that I can't find > any easy answer for :). The common definition of a font size seems to va

points, pixels, fonts and pango

2007-05-13 Thread Pawel S. Veselov
Hi, I'm trying to get my head around computing a font size that I should use to fill in a box, so the letters actually fit into that box. I know the height of the box, in pixels. From what I understood, the font point is 1/72 of an inch. My display shows 75 dpi as it's vertical resolution. Which

Editing a Large Amount of Data Containing Many Fields

2007-05-13 Thread Marshall Lake
I'm looking for a way to allow a user to edit multiple files of data. Each file contains many records/rows. And each record contains many fields/columns. I'm not deeply familiar with treeviews in GTK but from what I know it seems to me that using a treeview to facilitate editing many records