goocanvas.Text
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goocanvas.Text

goocanvas.Text — A text item.

Synopsis

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

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