Cannot dynamically add image after text

[Dassadar]

Hello,
I am using walkabout version.
I would like to display some text of undefined length, then display on its right an image.
The only way I can see as of now is to:

1. estimate the text screen size based on font selected and text length
2. declare a flow of this width
3. add another flow behind with the image
   Is there a better way to do avoiding the painful step 1 please?
   Thx!

[ccoupe]

Better to move this question to Shoes 3. Might still be an open issue there? Short answer is we tried calculating the rect size of a text string using pango and it was not sufficiently better than (str.length*font_width_guess)+some_padding.