Multiline text is no longer vertically centred around the all of the text lines about adafruit_circuitpython_display_text HOT 3 CLOSED

I'm going to close this one. We can re-open if you anyone wants to revisit the x,y positioning specifically.

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I'm not sure when specifically that this behavior got changed, but I am leaning toward thinking the current behavior is more correct to be honest.

This code only sets the y position once in this line text.y = board.DISPLAY.height // 2 which is setting the y position to midway down the screen vertically.

Since this code is not using Anchored position I don't think any automatic centering (in any orientation) should be taking place really. It should be staying in the same location based on x,y positioning based on the default x/y origin.

In the older version of the library the y position appears to keep changing even though the user code is not making any more changes to it, which I think can be confusion to users.

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I modified your code to use anchored position and this way it behaves more like it did in the older version of the library even when I switch back to the new one:

import displayio
import terminalio
import board
import time
from adafruit_display_text.label import Label
text = Label(terminalio.FONT, text="line 1", max_glyphs=200)
board.DISPLAY.show(text)
#text.y = board.DISPLAY.height // 2

text.anchor_point = (0, 0.5)
text.anchored_position = (4, board.DISPLAY.height // 2)
for lines in range(2, 13 + 1):
    text.text = "\n".join(["Line " + str(line) for line in range(1, lines + 1)])
    time.sleep(2)

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