TextWidget

Abstract foundation widget for text rendering components supporting plain strings, RichText, fonts, colors, and gradients.

Overview

TextWidget serves as the base class for Label, Text, TextBlock, and RichTextView. It encapsulates font selection, font pixel size, plain text and RichText models, color gradients, and text layout measurement.

Configuring TextWidget

Label label = new Label("UniGUI")
        .font(Fonts.TITLE, 18.0f)
        .textGradient(Color.WHITE, Color.CYAN, 90.0f);

API

TextWidget::font(FontFace, float)

Set Font and Size

Configures font face and pixel size.

Parameter	Type	Description
font	FontFace	—
pixelSize	float	—

Returns TextWidget.

TextWidget::richText(RichText)

RichText Content

Returns or sets styled RichText model.

Parameter	Type	Description
richText	RichText	—

Returns TextWidget.

TextWidget::text(String)

Text Content

Returns or sets plain string text content.

Parameter	Type	Description
text	String	—

Returns TextWidget.

TextWidget::textBrush(TextBrush)

Set Text Brush

Applies custom TextBrush for special rendering effects.

Parameter	Type	Description
brush	TextBrush	—

Returns TextWidget.

TextWidget::textGradient(ColorView, ColorView, float)

Set Text Gradient

Applies two-color linear gradient to rendered text glyphs.

Parameter	Type	Description
startColor	ColorView	—
endColor	ColorView	—
angleDegrees	float	—

Returns TextWidget.