Word wrapping on the PyPortal (solved)

[nova turtle]

I am trying to understand word wrapping by following the guide here: https://learn.adafruit.com/making-a-pyportal-user-interface-displayio/overview

In the project code (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Learning_System_Guides/blob/81345f559067451fc60c7a8e55e16d40d0663bdb/PyPortal_User_Interface/code.py#L116-L118) , the for loop builds two strings. I cannot figure out why one string (new_text) is concatted new line first while the second string (test) is concatted new line last? Why are the leading/trailing new line characters not stripped before doing size calculations?

[opal light]

the test variable is probably to work around a bug in Label where empty lines would not be counted when calculating the y position of a label

so that this:

M
M
M

would be correctly placed, but not this:

M

M

so it creates the "test" version to get the correct position and transfers it to the real label

that bug should be fixed now though, but the fix is not be in the frozen library on the board, you would have to place the updated one in the root of CIRCUITPY

hmmmm I'll check with that code to see if it's really fixed anyway

[nova turtle]

Do you think that could be what the comments are referring to as "odd behavior?" (a few lines down from the highlighted code above)

[opal light]

yeah

[nova turtle]

Ok I guess I will leave it in my code then until I verify that the issue has been fixed. Thanks!

Word wrapping on the PyPortal (solved)

[opal light]

I'm not sure I understand the logic of the label placement in that code. It seems like it's trying to center the text while keeping it below the tabs buttons, but adds an empty line to create an offset