Problem
Suppose your application utilizes GtkTreeView, and you would like to allow the user to set the font size of the row contents as shown below:
Solution
- It's easy to set the font size during the setup of the treeview by setting the property of GtkCellrenderer::font()
- If you wish to change the font-size after the treeview has been set up, and you only set property GtkCellrenderer::font(), you will find that the font size is not changed at all!
- The "trick" is to call the method GtkTreeView::queue_draw() so that the treeview gets updated.
Sample Code
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 | <?php $window = new GtkWindow(); $window->set_size_request(400, 240); $window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit')); $window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox()); // display title $title = new GtkLabel("Change Font Size in GtkTreeView - Part 1"); $title->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Times New Roman Italic 10")); $title->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse("#0000ff")); $title->set_size_request(-1, 40); $vbox->pack_start($title, 0, 0); $vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel(), 0, 0); $vbox->pack_start($hbox = new GtkHBox(), 0, 0); $hbox->pack_start($button1 = new GtkButton("Font Size = 6"), 0, 0); $hbox->pack_start($button2 = new GtkButton("Font Size = 12"), 0, 0); $hbox->pack_start($button3 = new GtkButton("Font Size = 16"), 0, 0); $button1->connect('clicked', 'on_button', 6); $button2->connect('clicked', 'on_button', 12); $button3->connect('clicked', 'on_button', 16); // the 2D table $data = array( array('row0', 'item 42', 2, 3.1), array('row1', 'item 36', 20, 6.21), array('row2', 'item 21', 8, 9.36), array('row3', 'item 10', 11, 12.4), array('row4', 'item 7', 5, 15.5), array('row5', 'item 4', 17, 18.6), array('row6', 'item 3', 20, 21.73)); display_table($vbox, $data); $window->show_all(); Gtk::main(); function display_table($vbox, $data) { // Set up a scroll window $scrolled_win = new GtkScrolledWindow(); $scrolled_win->set_policy( Gtk::POLICY_AUTOMATIC, Gtk::POLICY_AUTOMATIC); $vbox->pack_start($scrolled_win); // Creates the list store if (defined("GObject::TYPE_STRING")) { $model = new GtkListStore(GObject::TYPE_STRING, GObject::TYPE_STRING, GObject::TYPE_LONG, GObject::TYPE_DOUBLE); } else { $model = new GtkListStore(Gtk::TYPE_STRING, Gtk::TYPE_STRING, Gtk::TYPE_LONG, Gtk::TYPE_DOUBLE); } $field_header = array('Row #', 'Description', 'Qty', 'Price'); $field_justification = array(0.0, 0.0, 0.5, 1.0); // Creates the view to display the list store global $view; $view = new GtkTreeView($model); $scrolled_win->add($view); // Creates the columns for ($col=0; $col<count($field_header); ++$col) { $cell_renderer = new GtkCellRendererText(); $cell_renderer->set_property("xalign", $field_justification[$col]); $column = new GtkTreeViewColumn($field_header[$col], $cell_renderer, 'text', $col); $column->set_alignment($field_justification[$col]); $column->set_sort_column_id($col); // set the header font and color $label = new GtkLabel($field_header[$col]); $label->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Arial Bold")); $label->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse("#0000FF")); $column->set_widget($label); $label->show(); // setup self-defined function to display alternate row color $column->set_cell_data_func($cell_renderer, "format_col", $col); $view->append_column($column); } // pupulates the data for ($row=0; $row<count($data); ++$row) { $values = array(); for ($col=0; $col<count($data[$row]); ++$col) { $values[] = $data[$row][$col]; } $model->append($values); } $selection = $view->get_selection(); $selection->connect('changed', 'on_selection'); } // self-defined function to format the price column function format_col($column, $cell, $model, $iter, $col_num) { $path = $model->get_path($iter); // get the current path $row_num = $path[0]; // get the row number if ($col_num==3) { $amt = $model->get_value($iter, 3); $cell->set_property('text', '$'.number_format($amt,2)); } $row_color = ($row_num%2==1) ? '#dddddd' : '#ffffff'; $cell->set_property('cell-background', $row_color); global $font_size; $cell->set_property('font', $font_size); // note 1 } // the function that is called when user selects a row function on_selection($selection) { list($model, $iter) = $selection->get_selected(); $desc = $model->get_value($iter, 1); $qty = $model->get_value($iter, 2); $price = $model->get_value($iter, 3); print "You have selected $desc: $qty ($price)\n"; } // the function that is called when user clicks on button function on_button($button, $size) { global $view, $font_size; $font_size = $size; echo "font_size = $size\n"; $view->queue_draw(); // note 2 } ?> |
Output
As shown above.
Explanation
- Change the font size.
- Queue for redraw!
Note
As you have probably noticed, just using GtkWidget::queue_draw() is not enough. For font size 12, you get:
And worse for font size 16:
We will fix this in Part 2.
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