Setting allowed size of text object on canvas in Tkinter

[Mickel Grönroos]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Eric Brunel wrote:

> Mickel Grönroos wrote:
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > How do I force a text object to be of a required size on a canvas in
> > Tkinter?
> >
> > [...]
>
> Is this what you want?
>
> ---------------------------------
> from Tkinter import *
>
> root = Tk()
> c = Canvas(root)
> c.pack()
> c.create_text(100, 100, text='spam spam spam spam spam', width=75)
> root.mainloop()
> ---------------------------------

No, the text is still wrapping. I would like to be able to se a "height"
option too, so that only the text that fits in the area defined by "width"
and "height" would be visible (and the rest simply not shown at all). Do
you know how to ackomplish that?

(Currently, I use bbox() to get the coordinates of the rectangle and the
text, then I chop of characters from the end of my string in a loop until
the bbox of the text is fully overlapped by the rectangle -- ugly and
possibly slow.)

/Mickel

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