### Method

# Gtk Widget create_pango_layout

#### Declaration [src]

    PangoLayout*
    gtk_widget_create_pango_layout (
      GtkWidget* widget,
      const char* text
    )

#### Description [src]

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

If you keep a `PangoLayout` created in this way around, you need to re-create it when the widget `PangoContext` is replaced. This can be tracked by listening to changes of the `GtkWidget:root` property on the widget.

#### Parameters

`text`

  Type: `const char*`

  Text to set on the layout.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  The data is owned by the caller of the method.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

#### Return value

Type: `PangoLayout`

The new `PangoLayout`

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.