<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >How do I right (or otherwise) justify a GtkLabel?</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="GTK+ FAQ" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Development with GTK+: widget specific questions" HREF="c698.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="How can I retrieve the text from a GtkMenuItem?" HREF="x779.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="How do I set the background color of a GtkLabel widget?" HREF="x801.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >GTK+ FAQ</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x779.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Development with GTK+: widget specific questions</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x801.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN789" >How do I right (or otherwise) justify a GtkLabel?</A ></H1 ><P >Are you sure you want to <I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >justify</I > the labels? The label class contains the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >gtk_label_set_justify()</TT > function that is used to control the justification of a multi-line label.</P ><P >What you probably want is to set the <I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >alignment</I > of the label, ie right align it, center it or left align it. If you want to do this, you should use:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >void gtk_misc_set_alignment (GtkMisc *misc, gfloat xalign, gfloat yalign);</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >where the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >xalign</TT > and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >yalign</TT > values are floats in [0.00;1.00].</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >GtkWidget *label; /* horizontal : left align, vertical : top */ gtk_misc_set_alignment(GTK_MISC(label), 0.0f, 0.0f); /* horizontal : centered, vertical : centered */ gtk_misc_set_alignment(GTK_MISC(label), 0.5f, 0.5f); /* horizontal : right align, vertical : bottom */ gtk_misc_set_alignment(GTK_MISC(label), 1.0f, 1.0f);</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x779.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x801.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >How can I retrieve the text from a GtkMenuItem?</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c698.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >How do I set the background color of a GtkLabel widget?</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >