How to draw a border with text

[happybeej]

Hello everyone,

Been wondering how to do this in Kivy. (See attached image). Its a common enough style that is useful for grouping options. All I can do so far in kivy is draw a border, but cannot figure out how to put a label within the border.

Regards,

Bernardo

[Ben Rousch]

I think you'd start with a FloatLayout. Inside of that, make another layout (maybe GridLayout) that's shorter in height than the FloatLayout, positioned at the bottom of the FloatLayout and give it a border. Then add a label inside of the FloatLayout with the text, positioned relative to the FloatLayout's upper left corner. If you add the Label after the GridLayout, it should be on top of the GridLayout.

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[Gabriel Pettier]

I would use a BorderImage for the border (duh :D), then indeed add a
Label with the text, if needed, i would add a Rectangle of the same
color as background under the text, to hide the border. Maybe some
drawing would be still necessary to cut the border around text "clean"
(rounded instead of straight), which would be slightly more complex but
still doable.

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:57:49AM -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:
> I think you'd start with a FloatLayout. Inside of that, make another layout
> (maybe GridLayout) that's shorter in height than the FloatLayout,
> positioned at the bottom of the FloatLayout and give it a border. Then add
> a label inside of the FloatLayout with the text, positioned relative to the
> FloatLayout's upper left corner. If you add the Label after the GridLayout,
> it should be on top of the GridLayout.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:36 AM, happybeej <happ...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> >
> > Been wondering how to do this in Kivy. (See attached image). Its a common
> > enough style that is useful for grouping options. All I can do so far in
> > kivy is draw a border, but cannot figure out how to put a label within the
> > border.
> >
> >
> >

> > <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-oNENRnpqZGY/UjsLcCAo4sI/AAAAAAAAABE/ePWBAoVltiM/s1600/border.PNG>