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erwinfletch · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 1

I am trying to set the title of the window dialog, however sometimes the title does not fit into the window title bar and gets cut off at the end. Is there a way to test if the string I'm going to set the title to will actually fit in the window?

Thanks!

openldev · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject:

The rendering of the title is handled by the window manager. To check this, you would have to know how the particular theme renders the title, if it actually renders the title in the window, the size of the window title font, the available title space, etc. Then, you would use this information to create a PangoLayout object out of the string and retrieve the width of that layout. Then, compare that value to the available title space.

You should be able to see by now that this really isn't easy to do, and I don't even know where to start to get some of this data. I would recommend that you just place the title in the window and accept that it may be ellipsed or not viewed in some window managers.