goocanvas.Text
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goocanvas.Text

goocanvas.Text — A text item.

Synopsis

class goocanvas.Text(goocanvas.ItemSimple):
    goocanvas.Text(properties=None)
    def get_natural_extents()

Ancestry

+-- gobject.GObject
	+-- goocanvas.ItemSimple
		+-- goocanvas.Text

goocanvas.Text Properties

"alignment"Read/WriteHow to align the text. Default value: pango.ALIGN_LEFT.
"anchor"Read/WriteHow to position the text relative to the given x and y coordinates. Default value: gtk.ANCHOR_NORTH_WEST.
"font"Read/WriteThe base font to use for the text. Default value: None.
"font-desc"Read/WriteThe attributes specifying which font to use.
"height"Read/WriteThe height to use to layout the text, or -1 to use the natural height. Default value: -1.
"text"Read/WriteThe text to display. Default value: None.
"use-markup"Read/WriteWhether to parse PangoMarkup in the text, to support different styles. Default value: False.
"width"Read/WriteThe width to use to layout the text. Default value: -1.
"x"Read/WriteThe x coordinate of the text. Default value: 0.
"y"Read/WriteThe y coordinate of the text. Default value: 0.

Implemented Interfaces

goocanvas.Text implements goocanvas.Item

Description

goocanvas.Text represents a text item. It is a subclass of goocanvas.ItemSimple and so inherits all of the style properties such as "stroke-color", "fill-color" and "line-width". It also implements the goocanvas.Item interface, so you can use the goocanvas.Item functions such as goocanvas.Item.raise_() and goocanvas.Item.rotate()

Constructor

    goocanvas.Text(properties=None)

properties :

A comma separated list of properties.

Returns :

A new goocanvas.Text

Creates a new canvas text item.

Here's an example showing how to create a text item with the bottom right of the text box placed at (500,500): 

text = goocanvas.Text(text="Hello, World!", x=500, y=500
						width=200, anchor=gtk.ANCHOR_SE,
						fill_color="blue")

Methods

goocanvas.Text.get_natural_extents

    def get_natural_extents()

Returns :

a 2-tuple containing two 4-tuples representing the ink and logical rectangles used to store the extents of glyph as drawn.

Gets the natural extents of the text, in the text item's coordinate space. The final extents of the text may be different, if the text item is placed in a layout container such as goocanvas.Table.

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