Measuring Height when using Wordwrap in pico_graphics.text

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1

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I’m using Wordrwap to create text which fits on the screen (this is for displaying track names obtained from my sonos player), but the issue is some track names are two lines long, and I’m currently putting the track info below, and can’t see how to get back info on how many lines have been used (and therefore add an offset to the next piece of text I’m going to display).

This is the relevant code where I’m making use of wordwrap (which works nicely).

self.pico_graphics.text(
                    second_message,
                    self.first_message_end,
                    self.text_position_y + (idx * self.text_height),
                    wordwrap=self.width - self.display_margin,
                    scale=self.text_scale,
                )

I can’t see any way to measure the height of text (I’ve been using width for other centred things, etc), and .text doesn’t seem to return anything (I’d hoped it would return the number of lines or something!).

2

Probably there is no height-attribute of the text because pico_graphics is using bitmap-fonts?! So the height should be fixed?!

3

The height is fixed, but it’s working out how many lines are being used when you use word-wrap - otherwise I need to implement that myself which seems like a needless duplication.

4

Totally agree - this is a major shortcoming of pico_graphics.