diff --git a/src/Library/demos/Text Colors/main.py b/src/Library/demos/Text Colors/main.py new file mode 100644 index 000000000..95349c99d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/Library/demos/Text Colors/main.py @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +# Pango is a text layout library. It can e.g. be used for formatting text +# https://gjs-docs.gnome.org/pango10~1.0/ +import gi + +gi.require_version("Gtk", "4.0") +gi.require_version("Pango", "1.0") +from gi.repository import Gtk, Pango +import workbench + +label: Gtk.Label = workbench.builder.get_object("label") + + +def update_attributes(): + # A Pango Attribute List is used to style the label + label.set_attributes(rainbow_attributes(label.get_label())) + + +# Generates an Attribute List that styles the label in rainbow colors. +# The `text` parameter is needed to detect string length + position of spaces +def rainbow_attributes(text): + rainbow_colors = ( + "#D00", + "#C50", + "#E90", + "#090", + "#24E", + "#55E", + "#C3C", + ) + + # Create a color array with the length needed to color all the letters + color_array = [] + i = 0 + while i < len(text): + color_array += rainbow_colors + i = len(color_array) + + # Independent variable from `i` in the following loop to avoid spaces "consuming" a color + color_idx = 0 + + attr_list_string = "" + for i in range(len(text)): + # Skip space characters + if text[i] != " ": + start_idx = i + end_idx = i + 1 + + color = color_array[color_idx] + color_idx += 1 + # See comment below + attr_list_string += f"{start_idx} {end_idx} foreground {color}," + + # For more info about the syntax for this function, see: + # https://docs.gtk.org/Pango/method.AttrList.to_string.html + return Pango.attr_list_from_string(attr_list_string) + + +label.connect("notify::label", lambda _, __: update_attributes()) +update_attributes()