- m_needParent = TRUE;
-
- wxSize newSize = size;
-
- PreCreation( parent, id, pos, size, style, name );
-
- m_widget = gtk_label_new( label );
- GtkJustification justify;
- if ( style & wxALIGN_CENTER )
- justify = GTK_JUSTIFY_CENTER;
- else if ( style & wxALIGN_RIGHT )
- justify = GTK_JUSTIFY_RIGHT;
- else // wxALIGN_LEFT is 0
- justify = GTK_JUSTIFY_LEFT;
- gtk_label_set_justify(GTK_LABEL(m_widget), justify);
-
- if (newSize.x == -1) newSize.x = gdk_string_measure( m_widget->style->font, label );
- if (newSize.y == -1) newSize.y = 26;
- SetSize( newSize.x, newSize.y );
-
- PostCreation();
-
- Show( TRUE );
+ m_needParent = TRUE;
+
+ if (!PreCreation( parent, pos, size ) ||
+ !CreateBase( parent, id, pos, size, style, wxDefaultValidator, name ))
+ {
+ wxFAIL_MSG( wxT("wxXX creation failed") );
+ return FALSE;
+ }
+
+ // notice that we call the base class version which will just remove the
+ // '&' characters from the string, but not set the label's text to it
+ // because the label is not yet created and because SetLabel() has a side
+ // effect of changing the control size which might not be desirable
+ wxControl::SetLabel(label);
+ m_widget = gtk_label_new( wxGTK_CONV( m_label ) );
+
+ GtkJustification justify;
+ if ( style & wxALIGN_CENTER )
+ justify = GTK_JUSTIFY_CENTER;
+ else if ( style & wxALIGN_RIGHT )
+ justify = GTK_JUSTIFY_RIGHT;
+ else // wxALIGN_LEFT is 0
+ justify = GTK_JUSTIFY_LEFT;
+ gtk_label_set_justify(GTK_LABEL(m_widget), justify);
+
+ // GTK_JUSTIFY_LEFT is 0, RIGHT 1 and CENTER 2
+ static const float labelAlignments[] = { 0.0, 1.0, 0.5 };
+ gtk_misc_set_alignment(GTK_MISC(m_widget), labelAlignments[justify], 0.0);
+
+ // do not move this call elsewhere
+ gtk_label_set_line_wrap( GTK_LABEL(m_widget), FALSE );
+
+ m_parent->DoAddChild( this );
+
+ PostCreation();
+
+ ApplyWidgetStyle();
+
+ wxControl::SetFont( parent->GetFont() );