I just came up against the same wall. Basically we need to be able to measure the characters in terms of pixels, is there a way to do this that I'm missing?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Bunce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:54 AM Subject: TAB operation in text widget > Hi All, > > Does anyone know how to move the cursor in a text window forward a fixed number of >pixels? > > > I would like to produce columns of text in the text widget when using a >proportionally-spaced font. > I can easily find out the width of the current line in pixels, but then I need to >move the set point forward > to start the next column at the correct point. But all of the set point operations >for a text widget seem to be > measured in characters rather than pixels. > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
