Class Labeltype

Label type constants and functions

Description

Labels may be drawn in a number of different styles. By setting a widget's labeltype property to one of the following constants, you control how the label is rendered.

Labeltype.normal - draws the text.
Labeltype.none - does nothing
Labeltype.symbol - draws "@xyz" labels, see "Symbol Labels"
Labeltype.shadow - draws a drop shadow under the text
Labeltype.engraved - draws edges as though the text is engraved
Labeltype.embossed - draws edges as thought the text is raised

Symbol Labels

The Labeltype.symbol label type uses the label string property to look up a small drawing procedure in a hash table. For historical reasons the string always starts with '@'; if it starts with something else (or the symbol is not found) the label is drawn normally:

The @ sign may be followed by the following optional "formatting" characters, in this order:

'#' forces square scaling, rather than distortion to the widget's shape.
+[1-9] or -[1-9] tweaks the scaling a little bigger or smaller.
[1-9] - rotates by a multiple of 45 degrees. '6' does nothing, the others point in the direction of that key on a numeric keypad.

doctool generated at Sun Aug 12 22:23:18 2001