pyglet.text.layout

Render simple text and formatted documents efficiently.

Three layout classes are provided:

TextLayout

The entire document is laid out before it is rendered. The layout will be grouped with other layouts in the same batch (allowing for efficient rendering of multiple layouts).

Any change to the layout or document, and even querying some properties, will cause the entire document to be laid out again.

ScrollableTextLayout

Based on TextLayout().

A separate group is used for layout which crops the contents of the layout to the layout rectangle. Additionally, the contents of the layout can be “scrolled” within that rectangle with the view_x and view_y properties.

IncrementalTextLayout

Based on ScrollableTextLayout.

When the layout or document are modified, only the affected regions are laid out again. This permits efficient interactive editing and styling of text.

Only the visible portion of the layout is actually rendered; as the viewport is scrolled additional sections are rendered and discarded as required. This permits efficient viewing and editing of large documents.

Additionally, this class provides methods for locating the position of a caret in the document, and for displaying interactive text selections.

All three layout classes can be used with either UnformattedDocument or FormattedDocument, and can be either single-line or multiline. The combinations of these options effectively provides 12 different text display possibilities.

Style attributes

The following character style attribute names are recognised by the layout classes. Data types and units are as specified.

Where an attribute is marked “as a distance” the value is assumed to be in pixels if given as an int or float, otherwise a string of the form "0u" is required, where 0 is the distance and u is the unit; one of "px" (pixels), "pt" (points), "pc" (picas), "cm" (centimeters), "mm" (millimeters) or "in" (inches). For example, "14pt" is the distance covering 14 points, which at the default DPI of 96 is 18 pixels.

font_name

Font family name, as given to pyglet.font.load().

font_size

Font size, in points.

bold

Boolean.

italic

Boolean.

underline

4-tuple of ints in range (0, 255) giving RGBA underline color, or None (default) for no underline.

kerning

Additional space to insert between glyphs, as a distance. Defaults to 0.

baseline

Offset of glyph baseline from line baseline, as a distance. Positive values give a superscript, negative values give a subscript. Defaults to 0.

color

4-tuple of ints in range (0, 255) giving RGBA text color

background_color

4-tuple of ints in range (0, 255) giving RGBA text background color; or None for no background fill.

The following paragraph style attribute names are recognised. Note that paragraph styles are handled no differently from character styles by the document: it is the application’s responsibility to set the style over an entire paragraph, otherwise results are undefined.

align

left (default), center or right.

indent

Additional horizontal space to insert before the first glyph of the first line of a paragraph, as a distance.

leading

Additional space to insert between consecutive lines within a paragraph, as a distance. Defaults to 0.

line_spacing

Distance between consecutive baselines in a paragraph, as a distance. Defaults to None, which automatically calculates the tightest line spacing for each line based on the font ascent and descent.

margin_left

Left paragraph margin, as a distance.

margin_right

Right paragraph margin, as a distance.

margin_top

Margin above paragraph, as a distance.

margin_bottom

Margin below paragraph, as a distance. Adjacent margins do not collapse.

tab_stops

List of horizontal tab stops, as distances, measured from the left edge of the text layout. Defaults to the empty list. When the tab stops are exhausted, they implicitly continue at 50 pixel intervals.

wrap

char, word, True (default) or False. The boundaries at which to wrap text to prevent it overflowing a line. With char, the line wraps anywhere in the text; with word or True, the line wraps at appropriate boundaries between words; with False the line does not wrap, and may overflow the layout width. char and word styles are since pyglet 1.2.

Other attributes can be used to store additional style information within the document; they will be ignored by the built-in text classes.

New in version 1.1.

class IncrementalTextDecorationGroup(program, order=0, parent=None)

scissor_area = (0, 0, 0, 0)

class IncrementalTextLayout(document, width, height, multiline=False, dpi=None, batch=None, group=None, wrap_lines=True)

Displayed text suitable for interactive editing and/or scrolling large documents.

Unlike TextLayout() and ScrollableTextLayout, this class generates vertex lists only for lines of text that are visible. As the document is scrolled, vertex lists are deleted and created as appropriate to keep video memory usage to a minimum and improve rendering speed.

Changes to the document are quickly reflected in this layout, as only the affected line(s) are reflowed. Use begin_update and end_update to further reduce the amount of processing required.

The layout can also display a text selection (text with a different background color). The Caret class implements a visible text cursor and provides event handlers for scrolling, selecting and editing text in an incremental text layout.

decoration_class

alias of IncrementalTextDecorationGroup

group_class

alias of IncrementalTextLayoutGroup

delete()

Remove this layout from its batch.

ensure_line_visible(line)

Adjust view_y so that the line with the given index is visible.

Parameters

lineint

Line index.

ensure_x_visible(x)

Adjust view_x so that the given X coordinate is visible.

The X coordinate is given relative to the current view_x.

Parameters

xint

X coordinate

get_line_count()

Get the number of lines in the text layout.

Return type

int

get_line_from_point(x, y)

Get the closest line index to a point.

Parameters

xint

X coordinate.

yint

Y coordinate.

Return type

int

get_line_from_position(position)

Get the line index of a character position in the document.

Parameters

positionint

Document position.

Return type

int

get_point_from_line(line)

Get the X, Y coordinates of a line index.

Parameters

lineint

Line index.

Return type

(int, int)

Returns

(x, y)

get_point_from_position(position, line=None)

Get the X, Y coordinates of a position in the document.

The position that ends a line has an ambiguous point: it can be either the end of the line, or the beginning of the next line. You may optionally specify a line index to disambiguate the case.

The resulting Y coordinate gives the baseline of the line.

Parameters

positionint

Character position within document.

lineint

Line index.

Return type

(int, int)

Returns

(x, y)

get_position_from_line(line)

Get the first document character position of a given line index.

Parameters

lineint

Line index.

Return type

int

get_position_from_point(x, y)

Get the closest document position to a point.

Parameters

xint

X coordinate

yint

Y coordinate

get_position_on_line(line, x)

Get the closest document position for a given line index and X coordinate.

Parameters

lineint

Line index.

xint

X coordinate.

Return type

int

on_delete_text(start, end)

Event handler for AbstractDocument.on_delete_text.

The event handler is bound by the text layout; there is no need for applications to interact with this method.

on_insert_text(start, text)

Event handler for AbstractDocument.on_insert_text.

The event handler is bound by the text layout; there is no need for applications to interact with this method.

on_layout_update()

Some or all of the layout text was reflowed.

Text reflow is caused by document edits or changes to the layout’s size. Changes to the layout’s position or active selection, and certain document edits such as text color, do not cause a reflow.

Handle this event to update the position of a graphical element that depends on the laid out position of a glyph or line.

Event

on_style_text(start, end, attributes)

Event handler for AbstractDocument.on_style_text.

The event handler is bound by the text layout; there is no need for applications to interact with this method.

set_selection(start, end)

Set the text selection range.

If start equals end no selection will be visible.

Parameters

startint

Starting character position of selection.

endint

End of selection, exclusive.

property anchor_x

Horizontal anchor alignment.

This property determines the meaning of the x coordinate. It is one of the enumerants:

"left" (default)

The X coordinate gives the position of the left edge of the layout.

"center"

The X coordinate gives the position of the center of the layout.

"right"

The X coordinate gives the position of the right edge of the layout.

For the purposes of calculating the position resulting from this alignment, the width of the layout is taken to be width if multiline is True and wrap_lines is True, otherwise content_width.

Type

str

property anchor_y

Vertical anchor alignment.

This property determines the meaning of the y coordinate. It is one of the enumerants:

"top"

The Y coordinate gives the position of the top edge of the layout.

"center"

The Y coordinate gives the position of the center of the layout.

"baseline"

The Y coordinate gives the position of the baseline of the first line of text in the layout.

"bottom" (default)

The Y coordinate gives the position of the bottom edge of the layout.

For the purposes of calculating the position resulting from this alignment, the height of the layout is taken to be the smaller of height and content_height.

See also content_valign.

Type

str

event_types = ['on_layout_update', 'on_translation_update']

property height

Height of the layout.

Type

int

property multiline

Set if multiline layout is enabled.

If multiline is False, newline and paragraph characters are ignored and text is not word-wrapped. If True, the text is word-wrapped only if the wrap_lines is True.

Type

bool

property position

The (X, Y, Z) coordinates of the layout, as a tuple.

See also anchor_x, and anchor_y.

Type

(int, int, int)

property selection_background_color

Background color of active selection.

The color is an RGBA tuple with components in range [0, 255].

Type

(int, int, int, int)

property selection_color

Text color of active selection.

The color is an RGBA tuple with components in range [0, 255].

Type

(int, int, int, int)

property selection_end

End position of the active selection (exclusive).

See

set_selection

Type

int

property selection_start

Starting position of the active selection.

See

set_selection

Type

int

property view_x

Horizontal scroll offset.

The initial value is 0, and the left edge of the text will touch the left side of the layout bounds. A positive value causes the text to “scroll” to the right. Values are automatically clipped into the range [0, content_width - width]

Type

int

property view_y

Vertical scroll offset.

The initial value is 0, and the top of the text will touch the top of the layout bounds (unless the content height is less than the layout height, in which case content_valign is used).

A negative value causes the text to “scroll” upwards. Values outside of the range [height - content_height, 0] are automatically clipped in range.

Type

int

property width

Width of the layout.

This property has no effect if multiline is False or wrap_lines is False.

Type

int

property x

X coordinate of the layout.

See also anchor_x.

Type

int

property y

Y coordinate of the layout.

See also anchor_y.

Type

int

class IncrementalTextLayoutGroup(texture, program, order=1, parent=None)

scissor_area = (0, 0, 0, 0)

class ScrollableTextDecorationGroup(program, order=0, parent=None)

set_state()

Apply the OpenGL state change.

The default implementation does nothing.

unset_state()

Repeal the OpenGL state change.

The default implementation does nothing.

scissor_area = (0, 0, 0, 0)

class ScrollableTextLayout(document, width, height, multiline=False, dpi=None, batch=None, group=None, wrap_lines=True)

Display text in a scrollable viewport.

This class does not display a scrollbar or handle scroll events; it merely clips the text that would be drawn in TextLayout() to the bounds of the layout given by x, y, width and height; and offsets the text by a scroll offset.

Use view_x and view_y to scroll the text within the viewport.

decoration_class

alias of ScrollableTextDecorationGroup

group_class

alias of ScrollableTextLayoutGroup

property anchor_x

Horizontal anchor alignment.

This property determines the meaning of the x coordinate. It is one of the enumerants:

"left" (default)

The X coordinate gives the position of the left edge of the layout.

"center"

The X coordinate gives the position of the center of the layout.

"right"

The X coordinate gives the position of the right edge of the layout.

For the purposes of calculating the position resulting from this alignment, the width of the layout is taken to be width if multiline is True and wrap_lines is True, otherwise content_width.

Type

str

property anchor_y

Vertical anchor alignment.

This property determines the meaning of the y coordinate. It is one of the enumerants:

"top"

The Y coordinate gives the position of the top edge of the layout.

"center"

The Y coordinate gives the position of the center of the layout.

"baseline"

The Y coordinate gives the position of the baseline of the first line of text in the layout.

"bottom" (default)

The Y coordinate gives the position of the bottom edge of the layout.

For the purposes of calculating the position resulting from this alignment, the height of the layout is taken to be the smaller of height and content_height.

See also content_valign.

Type

str

property position

The (X, Y, Z) coordinates of the layout, as a tuple.

See also anchor_x, and anchor_y.

Type

(int, int, int)

property view_x

Horizontal scroll offset.

The initial value is 0, and the left edge of the text will touch the left side of the layout bounds. A positive value causes the text to “scroll” to the right. Values are automatically clipped into the range [0, content_width - width]

Type

int

property view_y

Vertical scroll offset.

The initial value is 0, and the top of the text will touch the top of the layout bounds (unless the content height is less than the layout height, in which case content_valign is used).

A negative value causes the text to “scroll” upwards. Values outside of the range [height - content_height, 0] are automatically clipped in range.

Type

int

property x

X coordinate of the layout.

See also anchor_x.

Type

int

property y

Y coordinate of the layout.

See also anchor_y.

Type

int

class ScrollableTextLayoutGroup(texture, program, order=1, parent=None)

set_state()

Apply the OpenGL state change.

The default implementation does nothing.

unset_state()

Repeal the OpenGL state change.

The default implementation does nothing.

scissor_area = (0, 0, 0, 0)

class TextDecorationGroup(program, order=0, parent=None)

set_state()

Apply the OpenGL state change.

The default implementation does nothing.

unset_state()

Repeal the OpenGL state change.

The default implementation does nothing.

class TextLayout(document, width=None, height=None, multiline=False, dpi=None, batch=None, group=None, wrap_lines=True)

Lay out and display documents.

This class is intended for displaying documents that do not change regularly – any change will cost some time to lay out the complete document again and regenerate all vertex lists.

The benefit of this class is that texture state is shared between all layouts of this class. The time to draw one TextLayout() may be roughly the same as the time to draw one IncrementalTextLayout; but drawing ten TextLayout() objects in one batch is much faster than drawing ten incremental or scrollable text layouts.

Label() and HTMLLabel() provide a convenient interface to this class.

Ivariables

content_widthint

Calculated width of the text in the layout. This may overflow the desired width if word-wrapping failed.

content_heightint

Calculated height of the text in the layout.

group_class~pyglet.graphics.Group

Top-level rendering group.

background_decoration_group~pyglet.graphics.Group

Rendering group for background color.

foreground_decoration_group~pyglet.graphics.Group

Rendering group for glyph underlines.

decoration_class

alias of TextDecorationGroup

group_class

alias of TextLayoutGroup

begin_update()

Indicate that a number of changes to the layout or document are about to occur.

Changes to the layout or document between calls to begin_update and end_update do not trigger any costly relayout of text. Relayout of all changes is performed when end_update is called.

Note that between the begin_update and end_update calls, values such as content_width and content_height are undefined (i.e., they may or may not be updated to reflect the latest changes).

delete()

Remove this layout from its batch.

draw()

Draw this text layout.

Note that this method performs very badly if a batch was supplied to the constructor. If you add this layout to a batch, you should ideally use only the batch’s draw method.

end_update()

Perform pending layout changes since begin_update.

See begin_update.

on_delete_text(start, end)

Event handler for AbstractDocument.on_delete_text.

The event handler is bound by the text layout; there is no need for applications to interact with this method.

on_insert_text(start, text)

Event handler for AbstractDocument.on_insert_text.

The event handler is bound by the text layout; there is no need for applications to interact with this method.

on_style_text(start, end, attributes)

Event handler for AbstractDocument.on_style_text.

The event handler is bound by the text layout; there is no need for applications to interact with this method.

parse_distance(distance)

property anchor_x

Horizontal anchor alignment.

This property determines the meaning of the x coordinate. It is one of the enumerants:

"left" (default)

The X coordinate gives the position of the left edge of the layout.

"center"

The X coordinate gives the position of the center of the layout.

"right"

The X coordinate gives the position of the right edge of the layout.

For the purposes of calculating the position resulting from this alignment, the width of the layout is taken to be width if multiline is True and wrap_lines is True, otherwise content_width.

Type

str

property anchor_y

Vertical anchor alignment.

This property determines the meaning of the y coordinate. It is one of the enumerants:

"top"

The Y coordinate gives the position of the top edge of the layout.

"center"

The Y coordinate gives the position of the center of the layout.

"baseline"

The Y coordinate gives the position of the baseline of the first line of text in the layout.

"bottom" (default)

The Y coordinate gives the position of the bottom edge of the layout.

For the purposes of calculating the position resulting from this alignment, the height of the layout is taken to be the smaller of height and content_height.

See also content_valign.

Type

str

property batch

The Batch that this Layout is assigned to.

If no Batch is assigned, an internal Batch is created and used.

Type

Batch

property content_valign

Vertical alignment of content within larger layout box.

This property determines how content is positioned within the layout box when content_height is less than height. It is one of the enumerants:

top (default)

Content is aligned to the top of the layout box.

center

Content is centered vertically within the layout box.

bottom

Content is aligned to the bottom of the layout box.

This property has no effect when content_height is greater than height (in which case the content is aligned to the top) or when height is None (in which case there is no vertical layout box dimension).

Type

str

property document

Document to display.

For IncrementalTextLayout it is far more efficient to modify a document in-place than to replace the document instance on the layout.

Type

AbstractDocument

property dpi

Get DPI used by this layout.

Type

float

property group

property height

Height of the layout.

Type

int

property multiline

Set if multiline layout is enabled.

If multiline is False, newline and paragraph characters are ignored and text is not word-wrapped. If True, the text is word-wrapped only if the wrap_lines is True.

Type

bool

property position

The (X, Y, Z) coordinates of the layout, as a tuple.

See also anchor_x, and anchor_y.

Type

(int, int, int)

property rotation

Rotation of the layout.

Type

float

property visible

True if the layout will be drawn.

Type

bool

property width

Width of the layout.

This property has no effect if multiline is False or wrap_lines is False.

Type

int

property x

X coordinate of the layout.

See also anchor_x.

Type

int

property y

Y coordinate of the layout.

See also anchor_y.

Type

int

property z

Z coordinate of the layout.

Type

int

class TextLayoutGroup(texture, program, order=1, parent=None)

set_state()

Apply the OpenGL state change.

The default implementation does nothing.

unset_state()

Repeal the OpenGL state change.

The default implementation does nothing.

get_default_decoration_shader()

get_default_image_layout_shader()

get_default_layout_shader()