Gtk.Label

Example

Subclasses:

Gtk.AccelLabel

Methods

Inherited:

Gtk.Misc (4), Gtk.Widget (278), GObject.Object (37), Gtk.Buildable (10)

Structs:

Gtk.WidgetClass (12), GObject.ObjectClass (5)

class	new (str)
class	new_with_mnemonic (str)
	get_angle ()
	get_attributes ()
	get_current_uri ()
	get_ellipsize ()
	get_justify ()
	get_label ()
	get_layout ()
	get_layout_offsets ()
	get_line_wrap ()
	get_line_wrap_mode ()
	get_lines ()
	get_max_width_chars ()
	get_mnemonic_keyval ()
	get_mnemonic_widget ()
	get_selectable ()
	get_selection_bounds ()
	get_single_line_mode ()
	get_text ()
	get_track_visited_links ()
	get_use_markup ()
	get_use_underline ()
	get_width_chars ()
	get_xalign ()
	get_yalign ()
	select_region (start_offset, end_offset)
	set_angle (angle)
	set_attributes (attrs)
	set_ellipsize (mode)
	set_justify (jtype)
	set_label (str)
	set_line_wrap (wrap)
	set_line_wrap_mode (wrap_mode)
	set_lines (lines)
	set_markup (str)
	set_markup_with_mnemonic (str)
	set_max_width_chars (n_chars)
	set_mnemonic_widget (widget)
	set_pattern (pattern)
	set_selectable (setting)
	set_single_line_mode (single_line_mode)
	set_text (str)
	set_text_with_mnemonic (str)
	set_track_visited_links (track_links)
	set_use_markup (setting)
	set_use_underline (setting)
	set_width_chars (n_chars)
	set_xalign (xalign)
	set_yalign (yalign)

Virtual Methods

Inherited:

Gtk.Widget (82), GObject.Object (7), Gtk.Buildable (10)

	do_activate_link (uri)
	do_copy_clipboard ()
	do_move_cursor (step, count, extend_selection)
	do_populate_popup (menu)

Properties

Inherited:

Gtk.Misc (4), Gtk.Widget (39)

Name	Type	Flags	Short Description
angle	float	r/w/en	Angle at which the label is rotated
attributes	Pango.AttrList	r/w	A list of style attributes to apply to the text of the label
cursor-position	int	r	The current position of the insertion cursor in chars
ellipsize	Pango.EllipsizeMode	r/w/en	The preferred place to ellipsize the string, if the label does not have enough room to display the entire string
justify	Gtk.Justification	r/w/en	The alignment of the lines in the text of the label relative to each other. This does NOT affect the alignment of the label within its allocation. See Gtk.Label :xalign for that
label	str	r/w	The text of the label
lines	int	r/w/en	The desired number of lines, when ellipsizing a wrapping label
max-width-chars	int	r/w/en	The desired maximum width of the label, in characters
mnemonic-keyval	int	r	The mnemonic accelerator key for this label
mnemonic-widget	Gtk.Widget	r/w	The widget to be activated when the label’s mnemonic key is pressed
pattern	str	w	A string with _ characters in positions correspond to characters in the text to underline
selectable	bool	r/w/en	Whether the label text can be selected with the mouse
selection-bound	int	r	The position of the opposite end of the selection from the cursor in chars
single-line-mode	bool	r/w/en	Whether the label is in single line mode
track-visited-links	bool	r/w/en	Whether visited links should be tracked
use-markup	bool	r/w/en	The text of the label includes XML markup. See Pango.parse_markup()
use-underline	bool	r/w/en	If set, an underline in the text indicates the next character should be used for the mnemonic accelerator key
width-chars	int	r/w/en	The desired width of the label, in characters
wrap	bool	r/w/en	If set, wrap lines if the text becomes too wide
wrap-mode	Pango.WrapMode	r/w/en	If wrap is set, controls how linewrapping is done

Style Properties

Inherited:

Gtk.Widget (17)

Signals

Inherited:

Gtk.Widget (69), GObject.Object (1)

Name	Short Description
activate-current-link	A keybinding signal which gets emitted when the user activates a link in the label.
activate-link	The signal which gets emitted to activate a URI.
copy-clipboard	The ::copy-clipboard signal is a keybinding signal which gets emitted to copy the selection to the clipboard.
move-cursor	The ::move-cursor signal is a keybinding signal which gets emitted when the user initiates a cursor movement.
populate-popup	The ::populate-popup signal gets emitted before showing the context menu of the label.

Fields

Inherited:

Gtk.Widget (69), GObject.Object (1)

Name	Type	Access	Description
misc	Gtk.Misc	r

Class Details

class Gtk.Label(*args, **kwargs)

Bases:

Gtk.Misc

Abstract:

No

Structure:

Gtk.LabelClass

The Gtk.Label widget displays a small amount of text. As the name implies, most labels are used to label another widget such as a Gtk.Button, a Gtk.MenuItem, or a Gtk.ComboBox.

CSS nodes

label
├── [selection]
├── [link]
┊
╰── [link]

Gtk.Label has a single CSS node with the name label. A wide variety of style classes may be applied to labels, such as .title, .subtitle, .dim-label, etc. In the Gtk.ShortcutsWindow, labels are used wth the .keycap style class.

If the label has a selection, it gets a subnode with name selection.

If the label has links, there is one subnode per link. These subnodes carry the link or visited state depending on whether they have been visited.

Gtk.Label as Gtk.Buildable

The Gtk.Label implementation of the Gtk.Buildable interface supports a custom <attributes> element, which supports any number of <attribute> elements. The <attribute> element has attributes named “name“, “value“, “start“ and “end“ and allows you to specify Pango.Attribute values for this label.

An example of a UI definition fragment specifying Pango attributes:

<object class="GtkLabel">
  <attributes>
    <attribute name="weight" value="PANGO_WEIGHT_BOLD"/>
    <attribute name="background" value="red" start="5" end="10"/>
  </attributes>
</object>

The start and end attributes specify the range of characters to which the Pango attribute applies. If start and end are not specified, the attribute is applied to the whole text. Note that specifying ranges does not make much sense with translatable attributes. Use markup embedded in the translatable content instead.

Mnemonics

Labels may contain “mnemonics”. Mnemonics are underlined characters in the label, used for keyboard navigation. Mnemonics are created by providing a string with an underscore before the mnemonic character, such as "_File", to the functions Gtk.Label.new_with_mnemonic() or Gtk.Label.set_text_with_mnemonic().

Mnemonics automatically activate any activatable widget the label is inside, such as a Gtk.Button; if the label is not inside the mnemonic’s target widget, you have to tell the label about the target using Gtk.Label.set_mnemonic_widget(). Here’s a simple example where the label is inside a button:

// Pressing Alt+H will activate this button
GtkWidget *button = gtk_button_new ();
GtkWidget *label = gtk_label_new_with_mnemonic ("_Hello");
gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (button), label);

There’s a convenience function to create buttons with a mnemonic label already inside:

// Pressing Alt+H will activate this button
GtkWidget *button = gtk_button_new_with_mnemonic ("_Hello");

To create a mnemonic for a widget alongside the label, such as a Gtk.Entry, you have to point the label at the entry with Gtk.Label.set_mnemonic_widget():

// Pressing Alt+H will focus the entry
GtkWidget *entry = gtk_entry_new ();
GtkWidget *label = gtk_label_new_with_mnemonic ("_Hello");
gtk_label_set_mnemonic_widget (GTK_LABEL (label), entry);

Markup (styled text)

To make it easy to format text in a label (changing colors, fonts, etc.), label text can be provided in a simple markup format.

Here’s how to create a label with a small font:

GtkWidget *label = gtk_label_new (NULL);
gtk_label_set_markup (GTK_LABEL (label), "<small>Small text</small>");

(See complete documentation of available tags in the Pango manual.)

The markup passed to Gtk.Label.set_markup() must be valid; for example, literal <, > and & characters must be escaped as &lt;, &gt;, and &amp;. If you pass text obtained from the user, file, or a network to Gtk.Label.set_markup(), you’ll want to escape it with GLib.markup_escape_text() or g_markup_printf_escaped().

Markup strings are just a convenient way to set the Pango.AttrList on a label; Gtk.Label.set_attributes() may be a simpler way to set attributes in some cases. Be careful though; Pango.AttrList tends to cause internationalization problems, unless you’re applying attributes to the entire string (i.e. unless you set the range of each attribute to [0, GObject.G_MAXINT)). The reason is that specifying the start_index and end_index for a Pango.Attribute requires knowledge of the exact string being displayed, so translations will cause problems.

Selectable labels

Labels can be made selectable with Gtk.Label.set_selectable(). Selectable labels allow the user to copy the label contents to the clipboard. Only labels that contain useful-to-copy information — such as error messages — should be made selectable.

Text layout

A label can contain any number of paragraphs, but will have performance problems if it contains more than a small number. Paragraphs are separated by newlines or other paragraph separators understood by Pango.

Labels can automatically wrap text if you call Gtk.Label.set_line_wrap().

Gtk.Label.set_justify() sets how the lines in a label align with one another. If you want to set how the label as a whole aligns in its available space, see the Gtk.Widget :halign and Gtk.Widget :valign properties.

The Gtk.Label :width-chars and Gtk.Label :max-width-chars properties can be used to control the size allocation of ellipsized or wrapped labels. For ellipsizing labels, if either is specified (and less than the actual text size), it is used as the minimum width, and the actual text size is used as the natural width of the label. For wrapping labels, width-chars is used as the minimum width, if specified, and max-width-chars is used as the natural width. Even if max-width-chars specified, wrapping labels will be rewrapped to use all of the available width.

Note that the interpretation of Gtk.Label :width-chars and Gtk.Label :max-width-chars has changed a bit with the introduction of width-for-height geometry management.

Links

Since 2.18, GTK+ supports markup for clickable hyperlinks in addition to regular Pango markup. The markup for links is borrowed from HTML, using the <a> with “href“ and “title“ attributes. GTK+ renders links similar to the way they appear in web browsers, with colored, underlined text. The “title“ attribute is displayed as a tooltip on the link.

An example looks like this:

const gchar *text =
"Go to the"
"<a href=\"http://www.gtk.org title=\"<i>Our</i> website\">"
"GTK+ website</a> for more...";
GtkWidget *label = gtk_label_new (NULL);
gtk_label_set_markup (GTK_LABEL (label), text);

It is possible to implement custom handling for links and their tooltips with the Gtk.Label ::activate-link signal and the Gtk.Label.get_current_uri() function.

classmethod new(str)

Parameters:

str (str or None) – The text of the label

Returns:

the new Gtk.Label

Return type:

Gtk.Widget

Creates a new label with the given text inside it. You can pass None to get an empty label widget.

classmethod new_with_mnemonic(str)

Parameters:

str (str or None) – The text of the label, with an underscore in front of the mnemonic character

Returns:

the new Gtk.Label

Return type:

Gtk.Widget

Creates a new Gtk.Label, containing the text in str.

If characters in str are preceded by an underscore, they are underlined. If you need a literal underscore character in a label, use ‘__’ (two underscores). The first underlined character represents a keyboard accelerator called a mnemonic. The mnemonic key can be used to activate another widget, chosen automatically, or explicitly using Gtk.Label.set_mnemonic_widget().

If Gtk.Label.set_mnemonic_widget() is not called, then the first activatable ancestor of the Gtk.Label will be chosen as the mnemonic widget. For instance, if the label is inside a button or menu item, the button or menu item will automatically become the mnemonic widget and be activated by the mnemonic.

get_angle()

Returns:

the angle of rotation for the label

Return type:

float

Gets the angle of rotation for the label. See Gtk.Label.set_angle().

New in version 2.6.

get_attributes()

Returns:

the attribute list, or None if none was set.

Return type:

Pango.AttrList or None

Gets the attribute list that was set on the label using Gtk.Label.set_attributes(), if any. This function does not reflect attributes that come from the labels markup (see Gtk.Label.set_markup()). If you want to get the effective attributes for the label, use pango_layout_get_attribute (Gtk.Label.get_layout (label)).

get_current_uri()

Returns:

the currently active URI. The string is owned by GTK+ and must not be freed or modified.

Return type:

str

Returns the URI for the currently active link in the label. The active link is the one under the mouse pointer or, in a selectable label, the link in which the text cursor is currently positioned.

This function is intended for use in a Gtk.Label ::activate-link handler or for use in a Gtk.Widget ::query-tooltip handler.

New in version 2.18.

get_ellipsize()

Returns:

Pango.EllipsizeMode

Return type:

Pango.EllipsizeMode

Returns the ellipsizing position of the label. See Gtk.Label.set_ellipsize().

New in version 2.6.

get_justify()

Returns:

Gtk.Justification

Return type:

Gtk.Justification

Returns the justification of the label. See Gtk.Label.set_justify().

get_label()

Returns:

the text of the label widget. This string is owned by the widget and must not be modified or freed.

Return type:

str

Fetches the text from a label widget including any embedded underlines indicating mnemonics and Pango markup. (See Gtk.Label.get_text()).

get_layout()

Returns:

the Pango.Layout for this label

Return type:

Pango.Layout

Gets the Pango.Layout used to display the label. The layout is useful to e.g. convert text positions to pixel positions, in combination with Gtk.Label.get_layout_offsets(). The returned layout is owned by the self so need not be freed by the caller. The self is free to recreate its layout at any time, so it should be considered read-only.

get_layout_offsets()

Returns:

x:

location to store X offset of layout, or None

y:

location to store Y offset of layout, or None

Return type:

(x: int, y: int)

Obtains the coordinates where the label will draw the Pango.Layout representing the text in the label; useful to convert mouse events into coordinates inside the Pango.Layout, e.g. to take some action if some part of the label is clicked. Of course you will need to create a Gtk.EventBox to receive the events, and pack the label inside it, since labels are windowless (they return False from Gtk.Widget.get_has_window()). Remember when using the Pango.Layout functions you need to convert to and from pixels using PANGO_PIXELS() or Pango.SCALE.

get_line_wrap()

Returns:

True if the lines of the label are automatically wrapped.

Return type:

bool

Returns whether lines in the label are automatically wrapped. See Gtk.Label.set_line_wrap().

get_line_wrap_mode()

Returns:

True if the lines of the label are automatically wrapped.

Return type:

Pango.WrapMode

Returns line wrap mode used by the label. See Gtk.Label.set_line_wrap_mode().

New in version 2.10.

get_lines()

Returns:

The number of lines

Return type:

int

Gets the number of lines to which an ellipsized, wrapping label should be limited. See Gtk.Label.set_lines().

New in version 3.10.

get_max_width_chars()

Returns:

the maximum width of the label in characters.

Return type:

int

Retrieves the desired maximum width of self, in characters. See Gtk.Label.set_width_chars().

New in version 2.6.

get_mnemonic_keyval()

Returns:

GDK keyval usable for accelerators, or Gdk.KEY_VoidSymbol

Return type:

int

If the label has been set so that it has an mnemonic key this function returns the keyval used for the mnemonic accelerator. If there is no mnemonic set up it returns Gdk.KEY_VoidSymbol.

get_mnemonic_widget()

Returns:

the target of the label’s mnemonic, or None if none has been set and the default algorithm will be used.

Return type:

Gtk.Widget or None

Retrieves the target of the mnemonic (keyboard shortcut) of this label. See Gtk.Label.set_mnemonic_widget().

get_selectable()

Returns:

True if the user can copy text from the label

Return type:

bool

Gets the value set by Gtk.Label.set_selectable().

get_selection_bounds()

Returns:

True if selection is non-empty

start:

return location for start of selection, as a character offset

end:

return location for end of selection, as a character offset

Return type:

(bool, start: int, end: int)

Gets the selected range of characters in the label, returning True if there’s a selection.

get_single_line_mode()

Returns:

True when the label is in single line mode.

Return type:

bool

Returns whether the label is in single line mode.

New in version 2.6.

get_text()

Returns:

the text in the label widget. This is the internal string used by the label, and must not be modified.

Return type:

str

Fetches the text from a label widget, as displayed on the screen. This does not include any embedded underlines indicating mnemonics or Pango markup. (See Gtk.Label.get_label())

get_track_visited_links()

Returns:

True if clicked links are remembered

Return type:

bool

Returns whether the label is currently keeping track of clicked links.

New in version 2.18.

get_use_markup()

Returns:

True if the label’s text will be parsed for markup.

Return type:

bool

Returns whether the label’s text is interpreted as marked up with the Pango text markup language. See Gtk.Label.set_use_markup ().

get_use_underline()

Returns:

True whether an embedded underline in the label indicates the mnemonic accelerator keys.

Return type:

bool

Returns whether an embedded underline in the label indicates a mnemonic. See Gtk.Label.set_use_underline().

get_width_chars()

Returns:

the width of the label in characters.

Return type:

int

Retrieves the desired width of self, in characters. See Gtk.Label.set_width_chars().

New in version 2.6.

get_xalign()

Returns:

the xalign property

Return type:

float

Gets the Gtk.Label :xalign property for self.

New in version 3.16.

get_yalign()

Returns:

the yalign property

Return type:

float

Gets the Gtk.Label :yalign property for self.

New in version 3.16.

select_region(start_offset, end_offset)

Parameters:

• start_offset (int) – start offset (in characters not bytes)

• end_offset (int) – end offset (in characters not bytes)

Selects a range of characters in the label, if the label is selectable. See Gtk.Label.set_selectable(). If the label is not selectable, this function has no effect. If start_offset or end_offset are -1, then the end of the label will be substituted.

set_angle(angle)

Parameters:

angle (float) – the angle that the baseline of the label makes with the horizontal, in degrees, measured counterclockwise

Sets the angle of rotation for the label. An angle of 90 reads from from bottom to top, an angle of 270, from top to bottom. The angle setting for the label is ignored if the label is selectable, wrapped, or ellipsized.

New in version 2.6.

set_attributes(attrs)

Parameters:

attrs (Pango.AttrList or None) – a Pango.AttrList, or None

Sets a Pango.AttrList; the attributes in the list are applied to the label text.

The attributes set with this function will be applied and merged with any other attributes previously effected by way of the Gtk.Label :use-underline or Gtk.Label :use-markup properties. While it is not recommended to mix markup strings with manually set attributes, if you must; know that the attributes will be applied to the label after the markup string is parsed.

set_ellipsize(mode)

Parameters:

mode (Pango.EllipsizeMode) – a Pango.EllipsizeMode

Sets the mode used to ellipsize (add an ellipsis: “…”) to the text if there is not enough space to render the entire string.

New in version 2.6.

set_justify(jtype)

Parameters:

jtype (Gtk.Justification) – a Gtk.Justification

Sets the alignment of the lines in the text of the label relative to each other. Gtk.Justification.LEFT is the default value when the widget is first created with Gtk.Label.new(). If you instead want to set the alignment of the label as a whole, use Gtk.Widget.set_halign() instead. Gtk.Label.set_justify() has no effect on labels containing only a single line.

set_label(str)

Parameters:

str (str) – the new text to set for the label

Sets the text of the label. The label is interpreted as including embedded underlines and/or Pango markup depending on the values of the Gtk.Label :use-underline and Gtk.Label :use-markup properties.

set_line_wrap(wrap)

Parameters:

wrap (bool) – the setting

Toggles line wrapping within the Gtk.Label widget. True makes it break lines if text exceeds the widget’s size. False lets the text get cut off by the edge of the widget if it exceeds the widget size.

Note that setting line wrapping to True does not make the label wrap at its parent container’s width, because GTK+ widgets conceptually can’t make their requisition depend on the parent container’s size. For a label that wraps at a specific position, set the label’s width using Gtk.Widget.set_size_request().

set_line_wrap_mode(wrap_mode)

Parameters:

wrap_mode (Pango.WrapMode) – the line wrapping mode

If line wrapping is on (see Gtk.Label.set_line_wrap()) this controls how the line wrapping is done. The default is Pango.WrapMode.WORD which means wrap on word boundaries.

New in version 2.10.

set_lines(lines)

Parameters:

lines (int) – the desired number of lines, or -1

Sets the number of lines to which an ellipsized, wrapping label should be limited. This has no effect if the label is not wrapping or ellipsized. Set this to -1 if you don’t want to limit the number of lines.

New in version 3.10.

set_markup(str)

Parameters:

str (str) – a markup string (see Pango markup format)

Parses str which is marked up with the Pango text markup language, setting the label’s text and attribute list based on the parse results.

If the str is external data, you may need to escape it with GLib.markup_escape_text() or g_markup_printf_escaped():

GtkWidget *label = gtk_label_new (NULL);
const char *str = "some text";
const char *format = "<span style=\"italic\">\%s</span>";
char *markup;

markup = g_markup_printf_escaped (format, str);
gtk_label_set_markup (GTK_LABEL (label), markup);
g_free (markup);

This function will set the Gtk.Label :use-markup property to True as a side effect.

If you set the label contents using the Gtk.Label :label property you should also ensure that you set the Gtk.Label :use-markup property accordingly.

See also: Gtk.Label.set_text()

set_markup_with_mnemonic(str)

Parameters:

str (str) – a markup string (see Pango markup format)

Parses str which is marked up with the Pango text markup language, setting the label’s text and attribute list based on the parse results. If characters in str are preceded by an underscore, they are underlined indicating that they represent a keyboard accelerator called a mnemonic.

The mnemonic key can be used to activate another widget, chosen automatically, or explicitly using Gtk.Label.set_mnemonic_widget().

set_max_width_chars(n_chars)

Parameters:

n_chars (int) – the new desired maximum width, in characters.

Sets the desired maximum width in characters of self to n_chars.

New in version 2.6.

set_mnemonic_widget(widget)

Parameters:

widget (Gtk.Widget or None) – the target Gtk.Widget, or None to unset

If the label has been set so that it has an mnemonic key (using i.e. Gtk.Label.set_markup_with_mnemonic(), Gtk.Label.set_text_with_mnemonic(), Gtk.Label.new_with_mnemonic() or the “use_underline” property) the label can be associated with a widget that is the target of the mnemonic. When the label is inside a widget (like a Gtk.Button or a Gtk.Notebook tab) it is automatically associated with the correct widget, but sometimes (i.e. when the target is a Gtk.Entry next to the label) you need to set it explicitly using this function.

The target widget will be accelerated by emitting the Gtk.Widget ::mnemonic-activate signal on it. The default handler for this signal will activate the widget if there are no mnemonic collisions and toggle focus between the colliding widgets otherwise.

set_pattern(pattern)

Parameters:

pattern (str) – The pattern as described above.

The pattern of underlines you want under the existing text within the Gtk.Label widget. For example if the current text of the label says “FooBarBaz” passing a pattern of “___ ___” will underline “Foo” and “Baz” but not “Bar”.

set_selectable(setting)

Parameters:

setting (bool) – True to allow selecting text in the label

Selectable labels allow the user to select text from the label, for copy-and-paste.

set_single_line_mode(single_line_mode)

Parameters:

single_line_mode (bool) – True if the label should be in single line mode

Sets whether the label is in single line mode.

New in version 2.6.

set_text(str)

Parameters:

str (str) – The text you want to set

Sets the text within the Gtk.Label widget. It overwrites any text that was there before.

This function will clear any previously set mnemonic accelerators, and set the Gtk.Label :use-underline property to False as a side effect.

This function will set the Gtk.Label :use-markup property to False as a side effect.

See also: Gtk.Label.set_markup()

set_text_with_mnemonic(str)

Parameters:

str (str) – a string

Sets the label’s text from the string str. If characters in str are preceded by an underscore, they are underlined indicating that they represent a keyboard accelerator called a mnemonic. The mnemonic key can be used to activate another widget, chosen automatically, or explicitly using Gtk.Label.set_mnemonic_widget().

set_track_visited_links(track_links)

Parameters:

track_links (bool) – True to track visited links

Sets whether the label should keep track of clicked links (and use a different color for them).

New in version 2.18.

set_use_markup(setting)

Parameters:

setting (bool) – True if the label’s text should be parsed for markup.

Sets whether the text of the label contains markup in Pango’s text markup language. See Gtk.Label.set_markup().

set_use_underline(setting)

Parameters:

setting (bool) – True if underlines in the text indicate mnemonics

If true, an underline in the text indicates the next character should be used for the mnemonic accelerator key.

set_width_chars(n_chars)

Parameters:

n_chars (int) – the new desired width, in characters.

Sets the desired width in characters of self to n_chars.

New in version 2.6.

set_xalign(xalign)

Parameters:

xalign (float) – the new xalign value, between 0 and 1

Sets the Gtk.Label :xalign property for self.

New in version 3.16.

set_yalign(yalign)

Parameters:

yalign (float) – the new yalign value, between 0 and 1

Sets the Gtk.Label :yalign property for self.

New in version 3.16.

do_activate_link(uri) virtual

Parameters:

uri (str) –

Return type:

bool

do_copy_clipboard() virtual

do_move_cursor(step, count, extend_selection) virtual

Parameters:

• step (Gtk.MovementStep) –

• count (int) –

• extend_selection (bool) –

do_populate_popup(menu) virtual

Parameters:

menu (Gtk.Menu) –

Signal Details

Gtk.Label.signals.activate_current_link(label)

Signal Name:

activate-current-link

Flags:

RUN_LAST, ACTION

Parameters:

label (Gtk.Label) – The object which received the signal

A keybinding signal which gets emitted when the user activates a link in the label.

Applications may also emit the signal with g_signal_emit_by_name() if they need to control activation of URIs programmatically.

The default bindings for this signal are all forms of the Enter key.

New in version 2.18.

Gtk.Label.signals.activate_link(label, uri)

Signal Name:

activate-link

Flags:

RUN_LAST

Parameters:

• label (Gtk.Label) – The object which received the signal

• uri (str) – the URI that is activated

Returns:

True if the link has been activated

Return type:

bool

The signal which gets emitted to activate a URI. Applications may connect to it to override the default behaviour, which is to call Gtk.show_uri_on_window().

New in version 2.18.

Gtk.Label.signals.copy_clipboard(label)

Signal Name:

copy-clipboard

Flags:

RUN_LAST, ACTION

Parameters:

label (Gtk.Label) – The object which received the signal

The ::copy-clipboard signal is a keybinding signal which gets emitted to copy the selection to the clipboard.

The default binding for this signal is Ctrl-c.

Gtk.Label.signals.move_cursor(label, step, count, extend_selection)

Signal Name:

move-cursor

Flags:

RUN_LAST, ACTION

Parameters:

• label (Gtk.Label) – The object which received the signal

• step (Gtk.MovementStep) – the granularity of the move, as a Gtk.MovementStep

• count (int) – the number of step units to move

• extend_selection (bool) – True if the move should extend the selection

The ::move-cursor signal is a keybinding signal which gets emitted when the user initiates a cursor movement. If the cursor is not visible in entry, this signal causes the viewport to be moved instead.

Applications should not connect to it, but may emit it with g_signal_emit_by_name() if they need to control the cursor programmatically.

The default bindings for this signal come in two variants, the variant with the Shift modifier extends the selection, the variant without the Shift modifer does not. There are too many key combinations to list them all here.

• Arrow keys move by individual characters/lines

• Ctrl-arrow key combinations move by words/paragraphs

• Home/End keys move to the ends of the buffer

Gtk.Label.signals.populate_popup(label, menu)

Signal Name:

populate-popup

Flags:

RUN_LAST

Parameters:

• label (Gtk.Label) – The object which received the signal

• menu (Gtk.Menu) – the menu that is being populated

The ::populate-popup signal gets emitted before showing the context menu of the label. Note that only selectable labels have context menus.

If you need to add items to the context menu, connect to this signal and append your menuitems to the menu.

Property Details

Gtk.Label.props.angle

Name:

angle

Type:

float

Default Value:

0.0

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The angle that the baseline of the label makes with the horizontal, in degrees, measured counterclockwise. An angle of 90 reads from from bottom to top, an angle of 270, from top to bottom. Ignored if the label is selectable.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.Label.props.attributes

Name:

attributes

Type:

Pango.AttrList

Default Value:

None

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE

A list of style attributes to apply to the text of the label

Gtk.Label.props.cursor_position

Name:

cursor-position

Type:

int

Default Value:

0

Flags:

READABLE

The current position of the insertion cursor in chars

Gtk.Label.props.ellipsize

Name:

ellipsize

Type:

Pango.EllipsizeMode

Default Value:

Pango.EllipsizeMode.NONE

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The preferred place to ellipsize the string, if the label does not have enough room to display the entire string, specified as a Pango.EllipsizeMode.

Note that setting this property to a value other than Pango.EllipsizeMode.NONE has the side-effect that the label requests only enough space to display the ellipsis “…”. In particular, this means that ellipsizing labels do not work well in notebook tabs, unless the Gtk.Notebook tab-expand child property is set to True. Other ways to set a label’s width are Gtk.Widget.set_size_request() and Gtk.Label.set_width_chars().

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.Label.props.justify

Name:

justify

Type:

Gtk.Justification

Default Value:

Gtk.Justification.LEFT

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The alignment of the lines in the text of the label relative to each other. This does NOT affect the alignment of the label within its allocation. See Gtk.Label :xalign for that

Gtk.Label.props.label

Name:

label

Type:

str

Default Value:

''

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE

The contents of the label.

If the string contains Pango XML markup, you will have to set the Gtk.Label :use-markup property to True in order for the label to display the markup attributes. See also Gtk.Label.set_markup() for a convenience function that sets both this property and the Gtk.Label :use-markup property at the same time.

If the string contains underlines acting as mnemonics, you will have to set the Gtk.Label :use-underline property to True in order for the label to display them.

Gtk.Label.props.lines

Name:

lines

Type:

int

Default Value:

-1

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The number of lines to which an ellipsized, wrapping label should be limited. This property has no effect if the label is not wrapping or ellipsized. Set this property to -1 if you don’t want to limit the number of lines.

New in version 3.10.

Gtk.Label.props.max_width_chars

Name:

max-width-chars

Type:

int

Default Value:

-1

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The desired maximum width of the label, in characters. If this property is set to -1, the width will be calculated automatically.

See the section on text layout for details of how Gtk.Label :width-chars and Gtk.Label :max-width-chars determine the width of ellipsized and wrapped labels.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.Label.props.mnemonic_keyval

Name:

mnemonic-keyval

Type:

int

Default Value:

16777215

Flags:

READABLE

The mnemonic accelerator key for this label

Gtk.Label.props.mnemonic_widget

Name:

mnemonic-widget

Type:

Gtk.Widget

Default Value:

None

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE

The widget to be activated when the label’s mnemonic key is pressed

Gtk.Label.props.pattern

Name:

pattern

Type:

str

Default Value:

None

Flags:

WRITABLE

A string with _ characters in positions correspond to characters in the text to underline

Gtk.Label.props.selectable

Name:

selectable

Type:

bool

Default Value:

False

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

Whether the label text can be selected with the mouse

Gtk.Label.props.selection_bound

Name:

selection-bound

Type:

int

Default Value:

0

Flags:

READABLE

The position of the opposite end of the selection from the cursor in chars

Gtk.Label.props.single_line_mode

Name:

single-line-mode

Type:

bool

Default Value:

False

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

Whether the label is in single line mode. In single line mode, the height of the label does not depend on the actual text, it is always set to ascent + descent of the font. This can be an advantage in situations where resizing the label because of text changes would be distracting, e.g. in a statusbar.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.Label.props.track_visited_links

Name:

track-visited-links

Type:

bool

Default Value:

True

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

Set this property to True to make the label track which links have been visited. It will then apply the Gtk.StateFlags.VISITED when rendering this link, in addition to Gtk.StateFlags.LINK.

New in version 2.18.

Gtk.Label.props.use_markup

Name:

use-markup

Type:

bool

Default Value:

False

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The text of the label includes XML markup. See Pango.parse_markup()

Gtk.Label.props.use_underline

Name:

use-underline

Type:

bool

Default Value:

False

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

If set, an underline in the text indicates the next character should be used for the mnemonic accelerator key

Gtk.Label.props.width_chars

Name:

width-chars

Type:

int

Default Value:

-1

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The desired width of the label, in characters. If this property is set to -1, the width will be calculated automatically.

See the section on text layout for details of how Gtk.Label :width-chars and Gtk.Label :max-width-chars determine the width of ellipsized and wrapped labels.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.Label.props.wrap

Name:

wrap

Type:

bool

Default Value:

False

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

If set, wrap lines if the text becomes too wide

Gtk.Label.props.wrap_mode

Name:

wrap-mode

Type:

Pango.WrapMode

Default Value:

Pango.WrapMode.WORD

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

If line wrapping is on (see the Gtk.Label :wrap property) this controls how the line wrapping is done. The default is Pango.WrapMode.WORD, which means wrap on word boundaries.

New in version 2.10.