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// text-example.slint
export component TextExample inherits Window {
// Text colored red.
Text {
x:0; y:0;
text: "Hello World";
color: red;
}
// This paragraph breaks into multiple lines of text.
Text {
x:0; y: 30px;
text: "This paragraph breaks into multiple lines of text";
wrap: word-wrap;
width: 150px;
height: 100%;
}
}
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A Text element for displaying text.

If the width and height properties are not set, the text will be expand in a single line. If the wrap property is set along with a width and height, the text will be wrapped into multiple lines of text.

brush default: <depends on theme>

The color of the text.

Text {
text: "Hello";
color: #3586f4;
font-size: 40pt;
}
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text color

string default: ""

The name of the font family selected for rendering the text.

Text {
text: "CoMiC!";
color: black;
font-size: 40pt;
font-family: "Comic Sans MS";
}
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text font-family

length default: 0px

The font size of the text.

Text {
text: "Big";
color: black;
font-size: 70pt;
}
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text font-size

int default: 0

The weight of the font. The values range from 100 (lightest) to 900 (thickest). 400 is the normal weight.

Text {
text: "BOLD";
color: black;
font-size: 30pt;
font-weight: 800;
}
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text font-weight

bool default: false

Whether or not the font face should be drawn italicized or not.

Text {
text: "Italic";
color: black;
font-italic: true;
font-size: 40pt;
}
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text font-family

struct FontMetrics default: a struct with all default values

FontMetrics

A structure to hold metrics of a font for a specified pixel size.

  • ascent (length): The distance between the baseline and the top of the tallest glyph in the font.
  • descent (length): The distance between the baseline and the bottom of the tallest glyph in the font. This is usually negative.
  • x_height (length): The distance between the baseline and the horizontal midpoint of the tallest glyph in the font, or zero if not specified by the font.
  • cap_height (length): The distance between the baseline and the top of a regular upper-case glyph in the font, or zero if not specified by the font.

The design metrics of the font scaled to the font pixel size used by the element.

enum TextHorizontalAlignment default: the first enum value

TextHorizontalAlignment

This enum describes the different types of alignment of text along the horizontal axis of a Text element.

  • left: The text will be aligned with the left edge of the containing box.
  • center: The text will be horizontally centered within the containing box.
  • right: The text will be aligned to the right of the containing box.

Text {
x: 0;
text: "Hello";
color: black;
font-size: 40pt;
horizontal-alignment: left;
}
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text-horizontal-alignment

length default: 0px

The letter spacing allows changing the spacing between the glyphs. A positive value increases the spacing and a negative value decreases the distance.

Text {
text: "Spaced!";
color: black;
font-size: 30pt;
letter-spacing: 4px;
}
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text-horizontal-alignment

enum TextOverflow default: the first enum value

TextOverflow

This enum describes the how the text appear if it is too wide to fit in the Text width.

  • clip: The text will simply be clipped.
  • elide: The text will be elided with .

string default: ""

The text rendered.

enum TextVerticalAlignment default: the first enum value

TextVerticalAlignment

This enum describes the different types of alignment of text along the vertical axis of a Text element.

  • top: The text will be aligned to the top of the containing box.
  • center: The text will be vertically centered within the containing box.
  • bottom: The text will be aligned to the bottom of the containing box.

enum TextWrap default: the first enum value

TextWrap

This enum describes the how the text wrap if it is too wide to fit in the Text width.

  • no-wrap: The text won’t wrap, but instead will overflow.
  • word-wrap: The text will be wrapped at word boundaries if possible, or at any location for very long words.
  • char-wrap: The text will be wrapped at any character. Currently only supported by the Qt and Software renderers.

Text {
text: "This paragraph breaks into multiple lines of text";
font-size: 20pt;
wrap: word-wrap;
width: 180px;
}
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wrap

brush default: a transparent brush

The brush used for the text outline.

Text {
text: "Stroke";
stroke-width: 2px;
stroke: darkblue;
stroke-style: center;
font-size: 80px;
color: lightblue;
}
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text stroke

length default: 0px

The width of the text outline. If the width is zero, then a hairline stroke (1 physical pixel) will be rendered.

enum TextStrokeStyle default: the first enum value

TextStrokeStyle

This enum describes the positioning of a text stroke relative to the border of the glyphs in a Text.

  • outside: The inside edge of the stroke is at the outer edge of the text.
  • center: The center line of the stroke is at the outer edge of the text, like in Adobe Illustrator.

Text {
text: "Style";
stroke-width: 2px;
stroke: #3586f4;
stroke-style: center;
font-size: 60px;
color: white;
}
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stroke-style

Rotates the text by the given angle around the specified origin point. The default origin point is the center of the element.

Text {
text: "I'm dizzy";
rotation-angle: 45deg;
rotation-origin-x: self.width / 2;
rotation-origin-y: self.height / 2;
font-size: 30pt;
}
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rotation properties

angle default: 0deg

length default: 0px

length default: 0px

By default, Text elements have the following accessibility properties set:

  • accessible-role: text;
  • accessible-label: text;

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