A label for displaying one or more lines of text. The Pango markup language can be used for marking up passages of text.
Name | Type | Default Value | Description |
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color | color | (system default) | The text color. You cannot use an alpha channel for colors here. The text color can also be changed with markup tags in the running text. ([new in 0.35] the alpha channel can be used!) |
font | font | (system default) | The text font. The font can also be changed with markup tags in the running text. |
value | string | The text to display. It has to be in valid UTF-8 encoding and has to escape characters which are reserved in XML by using the usual XML entities. | |
wrap-at | unit | The width at which the label should wrap to the next line. Wrapping is disabled by default. |
<display> <label value="gDesklets rocks!" font="Sans 3cm" color="red"/> <label id="line2" value="This is a really long line, but it will be wrapped at 1 CM because I'm going to tell it to! I'll wrap it to 1/2 an inch in the script though..." wrap-at="1cm"/> </display> <script> # The following will change the wrapping to 0.5 inches Dsp.line2.wrap_at = Unit( 0.5, IN ) </script>