Re: Crashes with long words in strings passed to gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text()

[Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007 gmail com>]

On 04/20/2011 02:34 AM, Morten Welinder wrote:
>> If you really want to safely pass a very long text,
>> you will have to know the font (family and size) then check with stuff
>> like pango_layout_set_text() and pango_layout_get_pixel_size().
> 
> This happened in Gnumeric at some point too.  Basically, every time user
> supplied string make it into tooltips, this will happen.  So it's
> probably better
> to fix this in gtk+.
> 
> M.

I don't think pixmap dimensions limit is mentioned in the GTK/GDK doc.
Width and height type is gint, not guint16 or gint16.


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Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007 gmail com>