gtkWidgetCreatePangoLayout {RGtk2} | R Documentation

## gtkWidgetCreatePangoLayout

### Description

Creates a new `PangoLayout` with the appropriate font map, font description, and base direction for drawing text for this widget.

### Usage

    gtkWidgetCreatePangoLayout(object, text)

### Arguments

``object`` | a `GtkWidget`
``text`` | text to set on the layout (can be `NULL`)

### Details

If you keep a `PangoLayout` created in this way around, in order to notify the layout of changes to the base direction or font of this widget, you must call `pangoLayoutContextChanged` in response to the `"style-set"` and `"direction-changed"` signals for the widget.

### Value

[`PangoLayout`] the new `PangoLayout`

### Author(s)

Derived by RGtkGen from GTK+ documentation

[Package RGtk2 version 2.20.36.3 Index]