wxPython - StaticText Class

Another important element in a GUI interface is a label, a read-only text of one or more lines. It is usually placed on the frame either as an identifier of another widget or as an informative string.

In wxPython, wx.StaticText class object presents a control holding such read-only text. It can be termed as a passive control since it doesn’t produce any event. Wx.StaticText class constructor requires the following usual parameters −

Wx.StaticText(parent, id, label, position, size, style)

Predefined style enumerators are −

wx.ALIGN_LEFT Controls the alignment of label within the size
wx.ALIGN_RIGHT
wx.ALIGN_CENTER
wx.ST_NO_AUTORESIZE Prevents auto resizing of the label
wx.ST_ELLIPSIZE_START Ellipsis (…) appears at the start, in the middle or at the end, if the size of the text is bigger than the label size
wx.ST_ELLIPSIZE_MIDDLE
wx.ST_ELLIPSIZE_END

The following methods of wx.StaticText class are also useful −

S.N. Methods & Description
1

SetLabel()

Sets label of object programmatically
2

GetLabel()

Returns object’s label
3

SetForeGroundColour()

Sets color of label’s text
4

SetBackGroundColour()

Sets label’s background
5

Wrap()

Wraps label’s text if it can not be accommodated within size.

The above features of StaticText class are demonstrated in the following example. Three StaticText objects are placed in a vertical box sizer.

The first object has multi-line text which is center aligned. The second label’s text is set to wrap around beyond 200 pixels. The third label shows ellipsis (…) in the middle of the text.

In order to set the label’s font, a font object is first created.

Wx.Font(pointsize, fontfamily, fontstyle, fontweight)

Fontfamily parameter takes the following values −

S.N. Parameters & Description
1

wx.FONTFAMILY_DEFAULT

Chooses a default font
2

wx.FONTFAMILY_DECORATIVE

Chooses a decorative font
3

wx.FONTFAMILY_ROMAN

Chooses a formal, serif font
4

wx.FONTFAMILY_SCRIPT

Chooses a handwriting font
5

wx.FONTFAMILY_SWISS

Chooses a sans-serif font
6

wx.FONTFAMILY_MODERN

Chooses a fixed pitch font
7

wx.FONTFAMILY_TELETYPE

Chooses a teletype (monospaced) font

FontStyle parameter enumerations are −

S.N. Parameters & Description
1

Wx.FONTSTYLE_NORMAL

The font is drawn without slant
2

wx.FONTSTYLE_ITALIC

The font is slanted in italic style
3

wx.FONTSTYLE_SLANT

The font is slanted, but in roman style

FontWeight parameters are −

S.N. Parameters & Description
1

Wx.FONTWEIGHT_NORMAL

Normal font
2

wx.FONTWEIGHT_LIGHT

Light font
3

wx.FONTWEIGHT_BOLD

Bold font

The complete code listing is −

import wx 
 
class Mywin(wx.Frame): 
   def __init__(self, parent, title): 
      super(Mywin, self).__init__(parent, title = title,size = (600,200))
      panel = wx.Panel(self) 
      box = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL) 
      lbl = wx.StaticText(panel,-1,style = wx.ALIGN_CENTER) 
		
      txt1 = "Python GUI development" 
      txt2 = "using wxPython" 
      txt3 = " Python port of wxWidget " 
      txt = txt1+"\n"+txt2+"\n"+txt3 
		
      font = wx.Font(18, wx.ROMAN, wx.ITALIC, wx.NORMAL) 
      lbl.SetFont(font) 
      lbl.SetLabel(txt) 
		
      box.Add(lbl,0,wx.ALIGN_CENTER) 
      lblwrap = wx.StaticText(panel,-1,style = wx.ALIGN_RIGHT) 
      txt = txt1+txt2+txt3 
		
      lblwrap.SetLabel(txt) 
      lblwrap.Wrap(200) 
      box.Add(lblwrap,0,wx.ALIGN_LEFT) 
		
      lbl1 = wx.StaticText(panel,-1, style = wx.ALIGN_LEFT | wx.ST_ELLIPSIZE_MIDDLE) 
      lbl1.SetLabel(txt) 
      lbl1.SetForegroundColour((255,0,0)) 
      lbl1.SetBackgroundColour((0,0,0)) 
		
      font = self.GetFont() 
      font.SetPointSize(20) 
      lbl1.SetFont(font) 
		
      box.Add(lbl1,0,wx.ALIGN_LEFT) 
      panel.SetSizer(box) 
      self.Centre() 
      self.Show() 
		
app = wx.App() 
Mywin(None,  'StaticText demo') 
app.MainLoop()

The above code produces the following output −

StaticText Output
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