You can get the attributes on any object/canvas item with the mapping
behaviour of the object. So to get the text_width attribute, you can use:
width = text_item['text_width']
You can also assign to attributes this way:
text_item['x'] = 42
container['border_width'] = 6 * 9
James.
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On Mon, 17 May 1999, J.W. Bizzaro wrote:
> Hello again.
>
> I'm a bit boggled about how to get the properties or values of canvas items. I
> put a text item on the canvas:
>
> canvas.root().add('text', x=10, y=10, font='Courier New',
> fill_color='black')
>
> First of all, how do I tell the width of the resulting text, which is important
> for layout? The barely-existing C-GNOME documentation hints at a text_width
> attribute. I tried setting that, but I get a warning that it is not writable.
> So maybe I can just "get" it like the other attributes, which brings up the
> second question. How do I get the attributes I set? I can't do any of the
> following:
>
> print canvas.root().text(text_width)
> print canvas.root().text.text_width
> print canvas.root().text_width
>
> or even
>
> print canvas.root().text.get(text_width)
>
> (C-GNOME has some "get" function, but I can't use it like this in PyGNOME)
>
> I think my problem may be half not having C-GNOME documentation, half not
> understanding how C-GNOME is wrapped in Python, and half not knowing Python very
> well.
>
>
> :-)
> Jeff
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