pango.Context

pango.Context
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pango.Context — stores global information used to control rendering.

Synopsis

class pango.Context(gobject.GObject):
    pango.Context()
    def get_font_map()
    def set_font_map(font_map)
    def list_families()
    def load_font(desc)
    def load_fontset(desc, language)
    def get_metrics(desc, language)
    def set_font_description(desc)
    def get_font_description()
    def get_language()
    def set_language(language)
    def set_base_dir(direction)
    def get_base_dir()

Ancestry

+-- gobject.GObject
  +-- pango.Context

Description

A pango.Context object contains global information used to control the rendering process. The information accessible using the pango.Context methods includes:

the default pango.FontDescription
the default pango.Language
the base direction of the text

A pango.Context can be created with the gtk.Widget.create_pango_context() method. The pango.Context associated with a gtk.Widget is retrieved using the gtk.Widget.get_pango_context()) method.

Constructor

    pango.Context()

Returns :

a new pango.Context without an associated font map

Note

Constructor is available in PyGTK 2.16 and above.

Creates a new PangoContext initialized to default values.

This constructor is not particularly useful as it should always be followed by a call to set_font_map method. Method pango.FontMap.create_context does these two steps together and hence users are recommended to use that.

If you are using Pango as part of a higher-level system, that system may have it's own way of create a pango.Context. For instance, the GTK+ toolkit has, among others, gtk.gdk.pango_context_get_for_screen and gtk.Widget.get_pango_context. Use those instead.

Methods

pango.Context.get_font_map

    def get_font_map()

Returns :

the font map for the pango.Context.

pango.Context.get_font_map

    def set_font_map(font_map)

font_map :

the pango.FontMap to set object

Note

This method is available in PyGTK 2.16 and above.

Sets the font map to be searched when fonts are looked-up in this context. This is only for internal use by Pango backends, a pango.Context obtained via one of the recommended methods should already have a suitable font map.

pango.Context.list_families

    def list_families()

Returns :

a tuple containing a set of pango.FontFamily objects.

The list_families() method returns a tuple containing the list of all the pango.FontFamily objects for a context.

pango.Context.load_font

    def load_font(desc)

`desc` :	a `pango.FontDescription` describing the font to load
Returns :	the `pango.Font` loaded, or `None` if no font matched.

The load_font() method loads and returns the pango.Font from one of the fontmaps in the context that is the closest match for the pango.FontDescription specified by desc.

pango.Context.load_fontset

    def load_fontset(desc, language)

`desc` :	a `pango.FontDescription` describing the fonts to load
`language` :	a `pango.Language` the fonts will be used for
Returns :	the `pango.FontSet`, or `None` if no font matched.

The load_fontset() method loads and returns a set of fonts (in a pango.FontSet) from the context that can be used to render a font matching the pango.FontDescription specified by desc with the pango.Language specified by language.

pango.Context.get_metrics

    def get_metrics(desc, language)

`desc` :	a `pango.FontDescription` object
`language` :	the `pango.Language` that determines the script to get the metrics for, or `None` to get the metrics for the entire font.
Returns :	a `pango.FontMetrics` object.

The get_metrics() method returns the overall metric information for the font described by the pango.FontDescription specified by desc. Since the metrics may be substantially different for different scripts, a pango.Language (specified by language) can be provided to indicate that the metrics should correspond to the script(s) used by that language. If the value of language is None, the returned pango.FontMetrics covers the entire font.

The family name in the pango.FontDescription may be a comma separated list of families. If characters from multiple of these families would be used to render the string, then the returned fonts would be a composite of the metrics for the fonts loaded for the individual families.

pango.Context.set_font_description

    def set_font_description(desc)

desc :

a pango.FontDescription object

The set_font_description() method sets the default pango.FontDescription (specified by desc) for the context.

pango.Context.get_font_description

    def get_font_description()

Returns :

the default font description of the context.

The get_font_description() method returns the default pango.FontDescription for the context.

pango.Context.get_language

    def get_language()

Returns :

the global pango.Language.

The get_language() method returns the global pango.Language for the context.

pango.Context.set_language

    def set_language(language)

language :

a pango.Language.

The set_language() method sets the global pango.Language for the context to the value specified by language.

pango.Context.set_base_dir

    def set_base_dir(direction)

direction :

the new base direction

The set_base_dir() method sets the base text direction for the context to the value specified by direction. The value of direction must be one of:

`pango.DIRECTION_LTR`	The text is written left-to-right
`pango.DIRECTION_RTL`	The text is written right-to-left
`pango.DIRECTION_TTB_LTR`	The text is written vertically top-to-bottom, with the rows ordered from left to right.
`pango.DIRECTION_TTB_RTL`	The text is written vertically top-to-bottom, with the rows ordered from right to left.

pango.Context.get_base_dir

    def get_base_dir()

Returns :

the base direction for the context.

The get_base_dir() method returns the base text direction for the context. See the set_base_dir() method for more information.

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