pyglet.text

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Text formatting, layout and display.

This module provides classes for loading styled documents from text files, HTML files and a pyglet-specific markup format. Documents can be styled with multiple fonts, colours, styles, text sizes, margins, paragraph alignments, and so on.

Using the layout classes, documents can be laid out on a single line or word-wrapped to fit a rectangle. A layout can then be efficiently drawn in a window or updated incrementally (for example, to support interactive text editing).

The label classes provide a simple interface for the common case where an application simply needs to display some text in a window.

A plain text label can be created with:

label = pyglet.text.Label('Hello, world',
                          font_name='Times New Roman',
                          font_size=36,
                          x=10, y=10)

Alternatively, a styled text label using HTML can be created with:

label = pyglet.text.HTMLLabel('<b>Hello</b>, <i>world</i>',
                              x=10, y=10)

Either label can then be drawn at any time with:

label.draw()

For details on the subset of HTML supported, see pyglet.text.formats.html.

Refer to the Programming Guide for advanced usage of the document and layout classes, including interactive editing, embedding objects within documents and creating scrollable layouts.

New in version 1.1.

exception DocumentDecodeException: An error occurred decoding document text.

class DocumentDecoder

Abstract document decoder.

decode(text, location=None)

Decode document text.

Parameters

textstr: Text to decode
locationLocation: Location to use as base path for additional resources referenced within the document (for example, HTML images).

Return type

AbstractDocument

class DocumentLabel(document=None, x=0, y=0, z=0, width=None, height=None, anchor_x='left', anchor_y='baseline', multiline=False, dpi=None, batch=None, group=None, rotation=0)

Base label class.

A label is a layout that exposes convenience methods for manipulating the associated document.

get_style(name)

Get a document style value by name.

If the document has more than one value of the named style, pyglet.text.document.STYLE_INDETERMINATE is returned.

Parameters

namestr: Style name to query. See documentation for pyglet.text.layout for known style names.

Return type

object

set_style(name, value)

Set a document style value by name over the whole document.

Parameters

namestr: Name of the style to set. See documentation for pyglet.text.layout for known style names.
valueobject: Value of the style.

property bold

Bold font style.

Type: bool

property color

Text color.

Color is a 4-tuple of RGBA components, each in range [0, 255].

Type: (int, int, int, int)

property font_name

Font family name.

The font name, as passed to pyglet.font.load(). A list of names can optionally be given: the first matching font will be used.

Type: str or list

property font_size

Font size, in points.

Type: float

property italic

Italic font style.

Type: bool

property opacity

Blend opacity.

This property sets the alpha component of the colour of the label’s vertices. With the default blend mode, this allows the layout to be drawn with fractional opacity, blending with the background.

An opacity of 255 (the default) has no effect. An opacity of 128 will make the label appear semi-translucent.

Type: int

property text

The text of the label.

Type: str

class HTMLLabel(text='', location=None, x=0, y=0, z=0, width=None, height=None, anchor_x='left', anchor_y='baseline', multiline=False, dpi=None, batch=None, group=None, rotation=0)

HTML formatted text label.

A subset of HTML 4.01 is supported. See pyglet.text.formats.html for details.

property text

HTML formatted text of the label.

Type: str

class Label(text='', font_name=None, font_size=None, bold=False, italic=False, stretch=False, color=(255, 255, 255, 255), x=0, y=0, z=0, width=None, height=None, anchor_x='left', anchor_y='baseline', align='left', multiline=False, dpi=None, batch=None, group=None, rotation=0): Plain text label.

decode_attributed(text)

Create a document directly from some attributed text.

See pyglet.text.formats.attributed for a description of attributed text.

Parameters

textstr: Attributed text to decode.

Return type

FormattedDocument

decode_html(text, location=None)

Create a document directly from some HTML formatted text.

Parameters

textstr: HTML data to decode.
locationstr: Location giving the base path for additional resources referenced from the document (e.g., images).

Return type

FormattedDocument

decode_text(text)

Create a document directly from some plain text.

Parameters

textstr: Plain text to initialise the document with.

Return type

UnformattedDocument

get_decoder(filename, mimetype=None)

Get a document decoder for the given filename and MIME type.

If mimetype is omitted it is guessed from the filename extension.

The following MIME types are supported:

text/plain: Plain text
text/html: HTML 4 Transitional
text/vnd.pyglet-attributed: Attributed text; see pyglet.text.formats.attributed

DocumentDecodeException is raised if another MIME type is given.

Parameters

filenamestr: Filename to guess the MIME type from. If a MIME type is given, the filename is ignored.
mimetypestr: MIME type to lookup, or None to guess the type from the filename.

Return type

DocumentDecoder

load(filename, file=None, mimetype=None)

Load a document from a file.

Parameters

filenamestr: Filename of document to load.
filefile-like object: File object containing encoded data. If omitted, filename is loaded from disk.
mimetypestr: MIME type of the document. If omitted, the filename extension is used to guess a MIME type. See get_decoder for a list of supported MIME types.

Return type

AbstractDocument