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! align
! align
| Can be left, right, or center. Aligns the text within the given label <width>. Defaults to left
| Can be left, right, or center. Aligns the text within the given label <code><width></code>. Defaults to left
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! aligny
! aligny
| Can be top or center. Aligns the text within its given label <height>. Defaults to  top
| Can be top or center. Aligns the text within its given label <code><height></code>. Defaults to  top
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! scroll
! scroll
| When true, the text will scroll if longer than the label's <width>. If false, the text will be truncated. Defaults to false.
| When true, the text will scroll if longer than the label's <code><width></code>. If false, the text will be truncated. Defaults to false.
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! label
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! info
! info
| Specifies the information that should be presented. XBMC will <span class="nobr">auto-fill</span> in this info in place of the <label>. [[InfoLabels|See here for more information.]]
| Specifies the information that should be presented. XBMC will <span class="nobr">auto-fill</span> in this info in place of the <code><label></code>. [[InfoLabels|See here for more information.]]
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! number
! number

Revision as of 08:16, 20 September 2011

The label control is used for displaying text in XBMC. You can choose the font, size, colour, location and contents of the text to be displayed.

Example

  <control type="label" id="1">
        <description>My First label</description>
        <posx>80</posx>
        <posy>60</posy>
        <width>250</width>
        <visible>true</visible>
        <align>center</align>
        <aligny>center</aligny>
        <scroll>false</scroll>
        <label>6</label>
        <info>MusicPlayer.Artist</info>
        <number></number>
        <angle>30</angle>
        <haspath>false</haspath>
        <font>font14</font>
        <textcolor>FFB2D4F5</textcolor>
        <shadowcolor>ff000000</shadowcolor>
        <wrapmultiline>false</wrapmultiline>
        <scrollspeed>50</scrollspeed>
        <scrollsuffix> - </scrollsuffix>
  </control>

Auto Size Labels

Wrapping your label in a grouplist with the auto width and appropriate minium and maximum values. Allows the labels width to dynamically change relevalant to how long the label text is. This allows a image or other control to be alligned to the right of the actual label text no matter how wide the label is.

   <width min="29" max="200">auto</width>

Multi-Line Labels

If you want your label control to span multiple lines, you can insert a new line character in your label. For example:

   <label>This will be on the first line[CR]And this will be on the second line</label>

Also, if you want your label control to conform to the <width> parameter, but still want to be able to give it more content than will fit on one line, then setting:

   <wrapmultiline>true</wrapmultiline>

will cause the text to be cut up (at the spaces in the text) onto multiple lines. Note that if a single word is larger than <width> then it will not be cut, and will still overflow.

Available Tags

In addition to the Default Control Tags the following tags are available. Note that each tag is lower case only. This is important, as xml tags are case-sensitive.

Tag Description
align Can be left, right, or center. Aligns the text within the given label <width>. Defaults to left
aligny Can be top or center. Aligns the text within its given label <height>. Defaults to top
scroll When true, the text will scroll if longer than the label's <width>. If false, the text will be truncated. Defaults to false.
label Specifies the text which should be drawn. You should specify an entry from the strings.xml here (either the XBMC strings.xml or your skin's strings.xml file), however you may also hardcode a piece of text also if you wish, though ofcourse it will not be localisable. You can use the full label formatting syntax and you may also specify more than one piece of information here by using the $INFO and $LOCALIZE formats.
info Specifies the information that should be presented. XBMC will auto-fill in this info in place of the <label>. See here for more information.
number Specifies a number that should be presented. This is just here to allow a skinner to use a number rather than a text label (as any number given to <label> will be used to lookup in strings.xml)
angle The angle the text should be rendered at, in degrees. A value of 0 is horizontal.
haspath Specifies whether or not this label is filled with a path. Long paths are shortened by compressing the file path while keeping the actual filename full length.
font Specifies the font to use from the font.xml file.
textcolor Specifies the color the text should be, in hex AARRGGBB format, or a name from the colour theme.
shadowcolor Specifies the color of the drop shadow on the text, in AARRGGBB format, or a name from the colour theme.
wrapmultiline If true, any text that doesn't fit on one line will be wrapped onto multiple lines.
scrollspeed Scroll speed of text in pixels per second. Defaults to 60.
scrollsuffix Specifies the suffix used in scrolling labels. Defaults to " | ".