Found it! Nevermind.

Future googlers:
self.title.element.content_width

(see: dir(self.title.element))

On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 10:38:25 AM UTC-5, Blaine wrote:
>
> Hi guys.
>
> I've got a Label and I want to make it scroll off the screen, then repeat. 
> With MoveTo() the scrolling isn't a problem, but I am having a heck of a 
> time figuring out when the entire label is off screen. I imagine I can just 
> take the x position (which will be negative), plus the width (or width/2 if 
> we use center point) of the label, and restart it when this value is < 0.
>
> However, I can't figure out how to tell the width of the Label. 
> Pyglet.text.Label has content_width, but I can't find out how to access 
> that either.
>
> Hopefully it's something obvious. What do you say?
>
> class ScrollingTextLayer(cocos.layer.Layer):
> is_event_handler = True
> def __init__(self, caption):
> super(ScrollingTextLayer, self).__init__()        
> x, y = director.get_window_size()
> self.title = text.Label(
>   caption, (x/2, y-50), font_name = 'Gill Sans',
>   font_size = 64, anchor_x='center', anchor_y='center' )
> self.add( self.title )
>
> def on_enter(self):
> super(ScrollingTextLayer,self).on_enter()
> move = MoveBy((-800, 0), 1)
> self.title.do( move )
>
> Blaine
>

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