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 (widget.get_style().font is one way to get a reference), you can
use the font object's width() method:
w = font.width("A string I want to know the width of")
James.
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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> Hello,
> I am just learning to program X and so far the only experiance I have
> had is using python and pyGTK/pyGnome. I am writing a program that uses
> the GtkCList class and in the GTK tutorial they stress the importance of
> setting the correct widths for the various columns, at first I was just
> going to use the settings that worked best on my computer as it is
> currently set up, but then it occured to me that if I changed my default
> font or if I gave the program to someone else who was using a different
> font than the one I use that the best values for the column width would
> also change.
> Looking at the example at the bottom of the GtkClist section of the GTK
> tutorial they don't show how to get any font info. I found the area in
> the GDK referance docs that tells how to get font info on a particular
> font, but I have not been able to find anything on how to find out what
> font is being used. If anyone can tell me where to find this I would be
> grateful.
>
> -Harry
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