MultiLine View related questions.

bahman

Hi,

I have two questions regarding the multiline view.

1- How can I offset the glyph sequence inside the view? I want the glyphs to appear lower than the border of the view. I can add new line glyph on top, but that also gets affected by setting the line height which is not desireable.

2- How can I avoid line breaks when glyphs reach the border. I tried to setDisplayStates using the following dictionary but it doesn't have any effect. Am I missing something?

OPTIONS = {'displayMode': 'Single Line',
'Show Kerning': True,
'Multi Line': False,
'xHeight Cut': False,
'Water Fall': False,
'Single Line': True,
'Inverse': False,
'Show Metrics': False,
'Left to Right': False,
'Right to Left': True,
'Center': True,
'Upside Down': False,
'Stroke': False,
'Fill': True,
'Beam': False,
'Guides': False,
'Blues': False,
'Family Blues': False,
'Show Control glyphs': False,
'Show Space Matrix': False,
'Show Template Glyphs': False,
'showLayers': []}

Thanks

bahman

Thank you for this!

frederik

r e a d i n g y o u r m i n d r i g h t n o w

okaytype

Well that was fast... from the beta posted immediately after I hit Submit

from mojo.UI import CurrentSpaceCenter
sc = CurrentSpaceCenter()
x, y = sc.getOffset()
sc.setOffset((x, y*2))

okaytype

This is a complete hack but you can fake a non-breaking multiline by changing the width.

from mojo.UI import CurrentSpaceCenter
sc = CurrentSpaceCenter()
xywh = list(sc.glyphLineView.getPosSize())
xywh[2] = 10000
sc.glyphLineView.setPosSize(xywh)

and separate x/y controls for _buffer would be great

bahman

Hello @gferreira

Thank you! This works very well. Right now it's only one value, If there will be a method to specify all the borders it would be perfect (left, right, top, bottom).
Thanks, this works too. Is it possible to disable line breaks in Multi-Line mode so the remaining text goes outside the view?

gferreira

hello @bahman,

1. the origin position is defined in a private attribute of the naked glyphLineView, there’s no public API for it yet. it’s a single buffer value which is used for both x and y origin:

from mojo.UI import CurrentSpaceCenter
S = CurrentSpaceCenter()
S.glyphLineView._glyphLineView._buffer = 20 # default is 15
S.updateGlyphLineView()

(this is a bit hacky, use it with care ;)

2. the Single Line View option should display a single line without any breaks (horizontal scrolling). this works for me:

from mojo.UI import CurrentSpaceCenter
sp = CurrentSpaceCenter()
states = sp.glyphLineView.getDisplayStates()
states['displayMode'] = "Single Line"
sp.glyphLineView.setDisplayStates(states)

please give it a try… thanks!

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