renoise.Views.Text

Shows a "static" text string. Static just means that its not linked, bound to some value and has no notifiers. The text can not be edited by the user. Nevertheless you can of course change the text at run-time with the "text" property.

  Text, Bla 1

Properties

align : TextAlignment

Setup the text's alignment. Applies only when the view's size is larger than the needed size to draw the text

font : TextFontStyle

The style that the text should be displayed with.

height : ViewDimension

The dimensions of a view has to be larger than 0. For nested views you can also specify relative size for example vb:text { width = "80%"}. The percentage values are relative to the view's parent size and will automatically update on size changes.

style : TextStyle

Get/set the color style the text should be displayed with.

text : TextSingleLineString

The text that should be displayed. Setting a new text will resize the view in order to make the text fully visible (expanding only).

  • Default: ""

tooltip : ViewTooltip

A tooltip text that should be shown for this view on mouse hover.

  • Default: "" (no tip will be shown)

views : renoise.Views.View[]

READ-ONLY Empty for all controls, for layout views this contains the layout child views in the order they got added

visible : ViewVisibility

Set visible to false to hide a view (make it invisible without removing it). Please note that view.visible will also return false when any of its parents are invisible (when its implicitly invisible).

  • Default: true

width : ViewDimension

The dimensions of a view has to be larger than 0. For nested views you can also specify relative size for example vb:text { width = "80%"}. The percentage values are relative to the view's parent size and will automatically update on size changes.

Functions

add_child(self, child : renoise.Views.View)

Add a new child view to this view.

remove_child(self, child : renoise.Views.View)

Remove a child view from this view.

Local Aliases

TextAlignment

"center" | "left" | "right"

-- Setup the text's alignment. Applies only when the view's size is larger than
-- the needed size to draw the text
TextAlignment:
    | "left" -- (Default)
    | "right" -- aligned to the right
    | "center" -- center text

TextFontStyle

"big" | "bold" | "italic" | "mono" | "normal"

-- The style that the text should be displayed with.
TextFontStyle:
    | "normal" -- (Default)
    | "big" -- big text
    | "bold" -- bold font
    | "italic" -- italic font
    | "mono" -- monospace font

TextSingleLineString

string

The text that should be displayed. Setting a new text will resize the view in order to make the text fully visible (expanding only).

  • Default: ""

TextStyle

"disabled" | "normal" | "strong"

-- Get/set the color style the text should be displayed with.
TextStyle:
    | "normal" -- (Default)
    | "strong" -- highlighted color
    | "disabled" -- greyed out color

ViewDimension

string | integer

The dimensions of a view has to be larger than 0. For nested views you can also specify relative size for example vb:text { width = "80%"}. The percentage values are relative to the view's parent size and will automatically update on size changes.

ViewTooltip

string

A tooltip text that should be shown for this view on mouse hover.

  • Default: "" (no tip will be shown)

ViewVisibility

boolean

Set visible to false to hide a view (make it invisible without removing it). Please note that view.visible will also return false when any of its parents are invisible (when its implicitly invisible).

  • Default: true