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Michael
Michael

Reputation: 23

Fitting a paragraph inside a kivy label

So I've got a label inside a .kv file that has a paragraph set as the text. Now the text is of course broken up on different lines within the file held together by doc-strings so it doesn't run forever to the right. When I set the label text equal to the paragraph its alignment is way off. Everywhere I've pressed enter within the text, to drop it down to prevent the over-running, also shows up in the label. Is there a way to ignore those so the text is viewed as if it were on a single line?

Label:
    text_size: self.size
    valign: "top"
    halign: "left"
    text: """This is an example paragraph used to show how the text is broken
    up inside the code. I lack the knowledge on how to remove the breaks from
    pressing the 'ENTER' key. I am once again asking for your help"""

Idk if this is common either but everywhere I have a comma, the single space after it is ignored and I am required to double space for a single space to be shown.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 704

Answers (1)

John Anderson
John Anderson

Reputation: 39092

You can escape the ENTER with a \ as below:

        text:
            """This is an example paragraph used to show how the text is broken\
 up inside the code. I lack the knowledge on how to remove the breaks from\
 pressing the 'ENTER' key. I am once again asking for your help"""

Note that the triple quote starts on a new line and is indented. The \ escapes the carriage returns at the end of the lines. And each additional line starts with a space (only because it is a space between words).

You can also do this using string concatenation:

    text:
        'This is an example paragraph used to show how the text is broken' +\
        ' up inside the code. I lack the knowledge on how to remove the breaks from' +\
        ' pressing the "ENTER" key. I am once again asking for your help'

The above uses the + operator, but again the newlines must be escaped, otherwise the kivy lang parser will interpret the newline as the end of the element.

Upvotes: 1

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