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/*!

\page Label_Control Label Control
\brief **Used to show some lines of text.**

\tableofcontents

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


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\section Label_Control_sect1 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>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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\section Label_Control_sect2 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>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As of XBMC Gotham, simply specifying <b>`<width>auto</width>`</b> is also supported.


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\section Label_Control_sect3 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 <b>`<width>`</b> 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 <b>`<width>`</b> then it will not be cut, and
will still overflow.


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\section Label_Control_sect4 Available tags

In addition to the [Default Control Tags](http://kodi.wiki/view/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 <b>`<width>`</b>. Defaults to left
| aligny        | Can be top or center. Aligns the text within its given label <b>`<height>`</b>. Defaults to top
| scroll        | When true, the text will scroll if longer than the label's <b>`<width>`</b>. 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 Kodi strings.xml or your skin's strings.xml file), however you may also hardcode a piece of text also if you wish, though of course it will not be localisable. You can use the full [label formatting syntax](http://kodi.wiki/view/Label_Formatting) and [you may also specify more than one piece of information here by using the $INFO and $LOCALIZE formats](http://kodi.wiki/view/Label_Parsing).
| info          | Specifies the information that should be presented. Kodi will auto-fill in this info in place of the <b>`<label>`</b>. [See here for more information](http://kodi.wiki/view/InfoLabels).
| 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 <b>`<label>`</b> 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](http://kodi.wiki/view/Colour_Themes).
| shadowcolor   | Specifies the color of the drop shadow on the text, in **AARRGGBB** format, or a name from the [colour theme](http://kodi.wiki/view/Colour_Themes).
| 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 <b>`"¦"`</b>.



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\section Label_Control_sect5 See also


#### Development:

- [Add-on development](http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on_development)
- [Skinning](http://kodi.wiki/view/Skinning)


*/