Hi all, I used FLTK 1.1.x to make a simple taskbar for the Ratpoison window manager. It's hosted at http://github.com/dimatura/rpbar . It works fine, but it's still pretty beta.
One of the hacks in the code relates to the clipping behavior for the labels. I'll explain. Here's a screenshot: http://github.com/downloads/dimatura/rpbar/shot.png . rpbar is the little bar small in the bottom. It's simply an Fl_pack with Fl_button's. The button labels are the window title of each running application. Now, the labels are often too long to fit in the button, so I truncate them. What I'm doing to solve this right now is a pretty ugly hack: I'm estimating the maximum characters the button may have by dividing the button width in pixel by a hard coded "character width in pixels" value and truncating the string at that value. In practice this doesn't work too well, as you might imagine. I tried FL_ALIGN_CLIP, but it doesn't really do what I want. So I'm wondering if there's a way to find out at runtime the width of a label in pixels so I can shave off letters from the text until it reaches the maximum width I want the label to have. Or maybe there I should do something else, like subclassing the widget or making a new label type. Any suggestions? thanks, Daniel _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
