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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am facing difficulties trying to set the text of a QgsLayoutItemLabel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I do something like the following to load a .qpt composer template and print this to a .png file (which works)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">path = "C:\\QGIS3\\apps\\qgis\\composer_templates"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">template_file = open(path+"\\ANSR_print_composer2.qpt")<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">template_content = template_file.read()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">template_file.close()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">document = QDomDocument()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">document.setContent(template_content)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">composition = QgsLayout(QgsProject.instance())<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">composition.loadFromTemplate(document, QgsReadWriteContext())<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">map_item = composition.itemById('map')<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">legend_item = composition.itemById('legend')<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">text_item = composition.itemById('textbox')<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">QgsLayoutExporter(composition).exportToImage( path+"\\report.png", QgsLayoutExporter.ImageExportSettings())<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And now I’d like to modify only the text of the QgsLayoutItemLabel, which is the “textbox”:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB">I can move it around with setX(), setY(), but I don’t know how to edit the text of the label. I thought of something like text_item.setText() or text_item.setLabelText(), but I think that text_item is just an
instance of QgsLayoutItem, not QgsLayoutItemLabel. And there I get stuck.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB">How would you manually add another text label, set the main property etc, such that, at the end of the day, my above code would export a .png containing this QgsLayoutItem?<br>
I would have begun this way: <br>
new = QgsLayoutItemLabel(composition)<br>
new.setText(“New label”)<br>
But it does not quite work that way!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Would be of great help, if you could give me some hints on that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thank you in advance! </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hannes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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