Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:50:52 +0900 (JST)
Message-Id: <20040826.165052.74190188.garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: briand at aracnet.com
Cc: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: how to put text in a drawing_area ?
From: Jacques GARRIGUE <garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
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From: briand at aracnet.com

> Seems like a very simple thing and in fact gDraw.mli contains the
> following comment :
> 
> 
> (** Functions for drawing points, lines, arcs, and text
>    @gtkdoc gdk gdk-Drawing-Primitives *)
> 
> 
> However there is no text method and I can't seem to trace out a link
> to the regular text widgets, nor can I find anything in the examples
> directory...

You need to use the #put_layout method.
But for that you must first create a layout with:

  let layout = area#misc#pango_context#create_layout in

Then you write in the layout, before drawing it:

  Pango.Layout.set_text layout "my text";
  drawable#put_layout layout ~x:10 ~y:10

Hope this helps.

Jacques

P.S. maybe we could add a simpler utility method...