Implementing A Simple Text Display Widget
Fredrik Lundh | September 2004 | Originally posted to online.effbot.org
Time for some WCK programming. The following snippet implements a simple text widget, which can display a single paragraph of text:
from WCK import Widget, FONT, FOREGROUND class SimpleTextView(Widget): ui_option_text = "" ui_option_width = 200 ui_option_height = 100 ui_option_font = FONT ui_option_foreground = FOREGROUND def ui_handle_config(self): self.font = self.ui_font( self.ui_option_foreground, self.ui_option_font ) return int(self.ui_option_width), int(self.ui_option_height) def ui_handle_repair(self, draw, x0, y0, x1, y1): space = draw.textsize(" ", self.font)[0] words = self.ui_option_text.split() x = y = 0 for word in words: # check size of this word w, h = draw.textsize(word, self.font) # figure out where to draw it if x: x += space if x + w > x1: # new line x = 0 y += h draw.text((x, y), word, self.font) x += w
The repair code treats the text as a single paragraph, consisting of one long list of words. Note that the code always draws words that start at the left margin, even if they won’t fit on the line. For all other words (where x is not zero), the code checks if there’s room for a space character and the word on the current line. If not (that is, if x+w>x1 where x1 is the right margin), it moves on to the next line.
Also note the use of a precomputed font object, and the use of FONT and FOREGROUND constants from the WCK module.
Here’s a usage example:
TEXT = """ I tell you I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a man's having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper. You turnip! """ w = SimpleTextView(None, text=TEXT) w.pack(expand=1, fill="both") w.mainloop()
In upcoming articles, we’ll look at how this can be extended to support multiple paragraphs, different text styles, etc. Stay tuned.
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