PyGUI show_text()

[Arnd]

Heya,

any PyGUI users out there?

I needed some finer text-positioning on a canvas (ie wanted to center
a string wrt a point, something show_text() doesn't provide) So I
looked into the sources and found all information, eg the dimensions
of the surrounding rectangle
are given by
mycanvas._font._get_pango_layout(mystring, True).get_pixel_size()

From this one can calculate a new basepoint, this works fine. I wonder

if there is a more elegant way I've overseen so far. (Or if not,
Greg would it be possible to include some optional positioning
parameters, something like left,center,right,top,middle,bottom to
show_text()).

All in all thanks a lot for PyGUI, even if it's still far away from
beeing complete.
To me it really brought back some fun in python-gui-programming.

Arnd

 

[greg]

I needed some finer text-positioning on a canvas (ie wanted to center
a string wrt a point, something show_text() doesn't provide)

Fonts have ascent, descent, height and line_height
attributes, and a width() method for measuring the
width of a string. You should be able to find out
what you need to know from those.

would it be possible to include some optional positioning
parameters, something like left,center,right,top,middle,bottom to
show_text()).

Yes, I'm considering something like that.

All in all thanks a lot for PyGUI,

Glad you like it!