I'm a Python beginner, and I was trying to build a Youtube Downloader. I just needed a GUI for easy usage. So I decided on Kivy. In the GUI I have this label named self.labelOutput. It is placed under a button. The script is very basic, so pressing the button only echoes the input. The problem is that this label is displaying weird behaviour (for me at least). It grows when multiple lines are entered (next step would be word wrapping). But the label seems to be growing upward, instead of downward. Like it's position is pinned at its bottom. Or as if my app only use half of the screen. I have searched the interwebs, including this site, but, while there are a lot of issues with labels, my particular issue is not here yet. I even asked AI generators, but that made my code only more messy. From CSS I remember certain attributes don't work properly when other properties aren't set or set wrong. Maybe it's something like that. I hope you guys can help. This is my code so far (far from pretty or efficient, I know. It's mostly AI generated to get started): import kivy from kivy.app import App from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout from kivy.uix.floatlayout import FloatLayout from kivy.uix.textinput import TextInput from kivy.uix.button import Button from kivy.uix.label import Label from kivy.uix.scrollview import ScrollView class MyApp(App): def build(self): float_layout = FloatLayout() # Make a BoxLayout to organiseren the widgets box_layout = BoxLayout(orientation='vertical', size_hint=(1, None), pos_hint={'top': 0.78}) # Make a Label to display text self.label = Label(text="YTDownloader", font_size=90, size_hint_y=None, height=100) box_layout.add_widget(self.label) self.label2 = Label(text="Youtube Downloader", size_hint_y=None, height=100) box_layout.add_widget(self.label2) #spacer label self.label3 = Label(text="", size_hint_y=None, height=20) box_layout.add_widget(self.label3) # Make a TextInput-widget self.text_input = TextInput(hint_text="Voer zoektermen in...", size_hint=(None, None), height=100, width=900, pos_hint={'center_x': 0.5}, padding=(20,20)) box_layout.add_widget(self.text_input) #another spacer label self.label4 = Label(text="", size_hint_y=None, height=30) box_layout.add_widget(self.label4) # Make a Button-widget button = Button(text="Zoek!", size_hint=(None, None), height=100, width=300, pos_hint={'center_x': 0.5}) # connect a function to the button button.bind(on_press=self.on_button_press) box_layout.add_widget(button) self.labelOutput = Label(text="", size_hint_y=None, width=960, text_size=(960, None), valign='top') self.labelOutput.bind(texture_size=self.update_label_height) box_layout.add_widget(self.labelOutput) float_layout.add_widget(box_layout) return float_layout def on_button_press(self, instance): # get the input text and display it in the output label input_text = self.text_input.text self.labelOutput.text = f"You entered: {input_text}" def update_label_height(self, instance, value): instance.height = instance.texture_size[1] if __name__ == "__main__": MyApp().run() Continue reading...
