A good simple text display widget in GTK (not Label)
 

I am looking for a simple text display widget in GTK2 that will easily display the numbers in a calculator application that I'm creating.

I tried using GtkLabel. Too simple. I cannot set text and background colour for this widget.

I tried using GtkTextView. Here I could set the text and background colour, but too complex. I don't need a full editor where I cannot easily set/retrieve the text values.

I tried using GtkEntry. Here it is easy to use, but I cannot set the alignment to right (which is a prerequisite for displaying a calculator view.

Is there any other widget which I can use which I can:

1. Set the text and retrieve it with one simple function call.
2. Set the background and text colour?
3. Will have an option to text align right?

Thanks.

You can! Put the label into a GtkEventBox and use gtk_widget_modify_* -functions on the eventbox.

There is gtk_entry_set_alignment(), but it requires gtk 2.4 or newer.

Thank you, Harmaa Kettu, for the tip with regard to GtkEntry. It works now.

GtkEntry
 

Hello,
I will set the color in a GtkEntry, but under SuSE 9.3 with KDE does not work.
My sourcecode:
entry = gtk_entry_new();
gtk_box_pack_start_defaults( GTK_BOX(vbox), GTK_WIDGET(entry));
gtk_entry_set_text( GTK_ENTRY(entry), "Zweites Editfeld" );
gdk_color_parse("red", &color);
gtk_widget_modify_text(entry, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color);

gtk_widget_show_all(GTK_WIDGET(fenster));

Who can help me? Thanks