[pygtk] Left justifying label text

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Hello Timo,

Yes, you're right.  I must have missed those lines in the documentation.

Thanks again for your help.

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Timo <timomlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you read the docs about set_justify()? It has 3 important parts in your
> case.
> Quote [1]:
> |gtk.JUSTIFY_LEFT| is the default value when the widget is first created. If
> you want to set the alignment of the label as a whole, use the
> |gtk.Misc.set_alignment|()
> <http://library.gnome.org/devel/pygtk/stable/class-gtkmisc.html#method-gtkmisc--set-alignment>
> method instead. The |set_justify|()
> <http://library.gnome.org/devel/pygtk/stable/class-gtklabel.html#method-gtklabel--set-justify>
> has no effect on labels containing only a single line.
>
>  * Your call to set_justify() does nothing, because you call the default
> value.
>  * It wouldn't work anyway because you only have one line.
>  * The solution is to use set_alignment()
>
> So replace label.set_justify(gtk.JUSTIFY_LEFT) with label.set_alignment(0,
> .5) and it should work.
>
> Cheers,
> Timo
>
> [1]
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/pygtk/stable/class-gtklabel.html#method-gtklabel--set-justify