you may also want to try gtksourceview (in gnomepythonextras IIRC)
On 6/25/05, John Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think you're using Arial, which is a variable width font. You need to
> use a fixed width font such as Courier, tab stops, or lay things out
> using multiple widgets to get the fields to line up.
>
> John
>
> Prash wrote:
> > Here's a weird one Guys. I'm trying to format a string with fixed
> > length fields and display in a textview. The format is absolutely
> > perfect when I print it out to a terminal with all the fields neatly
> > aligned. When I write the same thing to a textview, they look really
> > out of place with fields not aligned at all. What am I missing?
> > Interestingly when I copy everything (ctrl + c) from textview and
> > paste it to gedit. They are neatly aligned ???
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Here's my code.
> >
> > writeTextView(textview, "a", "debug", fmtrecord("field1,field2,field3") +
> > "\n")
> >
> >
> > def fmtrecord(rowstr):
> > srstr = rowstr.split(",")
> > fmtstr = string.rjust(srstr[0].strip(), 15) +
> > string.rjust(srstr[1].strip(), 15) + string.rjust(srstr[2].strip(),
> > 15)
> > return fmtstr
> >
> > def writeTextView(tview, mode, type, wstr):
> > tbuf = tview.get_buffer()
> > ttable = tbuf.get_tag_table()
> > if mode == 'w':
> > tbuf.set_text("")
> > sob, eob = tbuf.get_bounds()
> > tagexists = ttable.lookup(type)
> > if (tagexists == None):
> > tag = gtk.TextTag(type)
> > if type == 'error':
> > tag.set_property("font", "Arial")
> > tag.set_property("foreground", "red")
> > tag.set_property("size-points", 12)
> > tag.set_property("weight", 400)
> > elif type == 'warn':
> > tag.set_property("font", "Arial")
> > tag.set_property("foreground", "orange")
> > tag.set_property("size-points", 12)
> > tag.set_property("weight", 400)
> > else:
> > tag.set_property("font", "Arial")
> > tag.set_property("foreground", "blue")
> > tag.set_property("size-points", 10)
> > tag.set_property("weight", 400)
> > ttable.add(tag)
> > else:
> > tag = tagexists
> >
> > tbuf.insert_with_tags_by_name(eob, wstr, type)
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