greg greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Feb 3 19:36:19 EST 2007

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Arnd wrote:
> I needed some finer text-positioning on a canvas (ie wanted to center
> a string wrt a point, something show_text() doesn't provide)

Fonts have ascent, descent, height and line_height
attributes, and a width() method for measuring the
width of a string. You should be able to find out
what you need to know from those.

> would it be possible to include some optional positioning
> parameters, something like left,center,right,top,middle,bottom to
> show_text()).

Yes, I'm considering something like that.

> All in all thanks a lot for PyGUI,

Glad you like it!

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Greg

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