There are a few ways of going about this. If the list is not very big,
you can get gtk to automatically resize a column with the
GtkCList.set_column_auto_resize(col) method. If you want to find the
width of a particular piece of text and you have a reference to the font
object
Or if they're using a different language, the word widths would be
different for the text in their language. :)
A good rule of thumb is to allow 30% extra width from a normal width font
in English. This is speaking as a Mac programmer who's had to deal with
multi-language support and is not
you can get gtk to automatically resize a column with the
GtkCList.set_column_auto_resize(col) method. If you want to find
Thanks for the information, I settled on setting the columns to auto
resize when filling them with the initial data, then turning auto
resizing off after showing the
If you only want to do the sizing once, a more efficient way would be to
add all the rows and call the GtkCList.columns_autosize() method which
will resize all the columns to the optimal widths without causing them to
resize every time a cell is changed.
James.
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