Re: proper way to get cairo font width

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi Tommi,

Tommi Sakari Uimonen wrote:
> Hello. What is the best way to query font width from cairo, in case that I 
> want to set size_hint for the widget that is drawing with that font?
>
> Currently I'm creating a cairo for some existing widget and set there the 
> desired font and query the width from text_extents_t struct, but it seems 
> a bit hackish.
>
>   
would it help to construcz PangoLayouts and use pango_layout_get_extents().

> Tommi
>   
Stefan