y position of text can be wrong if constructor does not specify text

[kevinjwalters]

I updated my libraries last night to ones from adafruit-circuitpython-bundle-5.x-mpy-20200806.zip. I noticed the performance improvement with moving around text but I also spotted one solitary piece of text that was misplaced slightly off screen.

I've just made a simple recreation of this, I think it's when text is not specified or it is empty string, y is set, and then text is set. I am using scaled text here.

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Adafruit CircuitPython 5.3.0 on 2020-04-29; Adafruit CLUE nRF52840 Express with nRF52840
>>>
>>> import displayio, terminalio, board
>>> from adafruit_display_text.label import Label
>>> fdim = terminalio.FONT.get_bounding_box()
>>> l1 = Label(terminalio.FONT, max_glyphs=9, scale=3, color=0xff0000)
>>> l2 = Label(terminalio.FONT, text="", max_glyphs=9, scale=3, color=0x00ff00)
>>> l3 = Label(terminalio.FONT, text="Chad", max_glyphs=9, scale=3, color=0x0000ff)
>>> l1.y = l2.y = l3.y = round(240 - (3 * fdim[1] / 2))
>>> (l1.y, l2.y, l3.y)
(219, 219, 219)
>>> l2.x = 80
>>> l3.x = 160
>>> tg = displayio.Group(max_size=3)
>>> tg.append(l1)
>>> tg.append(l2)
>>> tg.append(l3)
>>> board.DISPLAY.show(tg)
>>> l1.text="Wot"
>>> l2.text="No"
>>> (l1.y, l2.y, l3.y)
(240, 240, 219)

Only l3 is correctly position, l1 and l2 are half off screen.

I see #78 which sounds like it could be in the same area?

Setting to whitespace seems to be a workaround for me, e.g. text=" ", and might be able to re-order my code to set text once in constructor.

[kmatch98]

Put this in my queue. I think it’s probably different than the case you mention. My first thought is that the bounding_box has something wrong with it but I’ll have to dig in. Glad you found a workaround in the meantime.

[kmatch98]

@kevinjwalters thanks for the heads-up on this issue with the text setter.

I uncovered that the anchor_point is being set to (0,0) as a default value. So, when you update the text, it checks the anchor_point and anchored_position as if they are valid data.

The code should be updated such that anchor_point = None when the anchor_point isn't defined.

There will need to be associated changes with the anything that uses the anchor_point or get/sets the anchored_position to respond properly when anchor_point = None. It'll take me a day or two to sort through this and test it out a bit.

[kevinjwalters]

I re-ordered my code as I can easily set the text to its (final) value when the Label is constructed.

[kmatch98]

This was resolved by the merge PR #81

[FoamyGuy]

Closed by #81 thanks @kmatch98