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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" type="guide" style="task" id="label.c" xml:lang="ca">
  <info>
    <title type="text">Label (C)</title>
    <link type="guide" xref="c#display-widgets"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="switch.c"/>
    <revision version="0.2" date="2012-06-22" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Monica Kochofar</name>
      <email its:translate="no">monicakochofar@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2012</years>
    </credit>

    <desc>A widget which displays text</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Label</title>
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="media/label.png"/>
      <p>A simple label</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

<code mime="text/x-csrc" style="numbered">#include &lt;gtk/gtk.h&gt;



static void
activate (GtkApplication *app,
          gpointer        user_data)
{
  GtkWidget *window;
  GtkWidget *label;

  /*Create a window with a title and a default size*/
  window = gtk_application_window_new (app);
  gtk_window_set_application (GTK_WINDOW (window), GTK_APPLICATION (app));
  gtk_window_set_title (GTK_WINDOW (window), "Welcome to GNOME");
  gtk_window_set_default_size (GTK_WINDOW (window), 200,100);
   
  /*Create a label and set its alignment. Setting the line wrap to TRUE makes 
  the label break lines if the text exceeds the widget's size. When set to 
  FALSE the text gets cut off by the edge of the widget*/
  label = gtk_label_new ("Hello GNOME!");
  gtk_label_set_justify (GTK_LABEL (label), GTK_JUSTIFY_CENTER);
  gtk_label_set_line_wrap (GTK_LABEL (label), TRUE);

  gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), GTK_WIDGET (label));

  gtk_widget_show_all (GTK_WIDGET (window));
}



int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
  GtkApplication *app;
  int status;

  app = gtk_application_new ("org.gtk.example",G_APPLICATION_FLAGS_NONE);
  g_signal_connect (app, "activate", G_CALLBACK (activate), NULL);
  status = g_application_run (G_APPLICATION (app), argc, argv);
  g_object_unref (app);
  return status;
}
</code>
<p>
  In this sample we used the following:
</p>
<list>
  <item><p><link href="http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.4/GtkApplication.html">GtkApplication</link></p></item>
  <item><p><link href="http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkWindow.html">GtkWindow</link></p></item>
 <item><p><link href="http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.4/GtkLabel.html">GtkLabel</link></p></item>
</list>
</page>
