Label nodes

Label nodes let you render text on screen in your SceneGraph apps. This page covers the label nodes packaged here and the abstract base class they share. For other text needs (scrolling, long passages, custom fonts, lighter-weight options), see Looking for something else? below.

Hello, text

A simple Label example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<component name="HelloLabel" extends="Group">
  <Label
    text="Application Development Made Easy!"
    font="font:MediumBoldSystemFont"
    horizAlign="left"
    vertAlign="center"
    translation="[318,8]" />
</component>

Choosing a node

Node	Best for
Label	A line or short block of text in a single style. The starting point for most text rendering.
MultiStyleLabel	Mixing styles inside one string: bold/italic runs, multiple colors, multiple fonts.
MonospaceLabel	A single line of text with all characters spaced at a fixed distance.
InfoPane	A pre-styled help-text panel with a white rounded border, used to explain a setting.

MultiStyleLabel and InfoPane in action:

Looking for something else?

For custom fonts, configure font URI, size, and style through a Font node. See Typographic nodes.
For long passages of scrollable text like license agreements, use ScrollableText.
For lines that auto-scroll when they overflow, use ScrollingLabel. It ellipsizes then scrolls horizontally on a loop.
For a lighter, more memory-efficient label, use SimpleLabel in Renderable nodes, a stripped-down single-line label with a simplified font model.
For alignment, wrapping, truncation, or rotation controls, see LabelBase, the abstract base class shared by Label and MultiStyleLabel.

Inheritance

Label and MultiStyleLabel both extend LabelBase, so most of their field reference (alignment, wrapping, ellipsis behavior, rotation) is documented on the LabelBase page rather than repeated on each. MonospaceLabel and InfoPane do not extend LabelBase and define their own fields directly.