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Hiya!

You inspired me to take what you provided and do some refactoring, feature additions, etc, with the result being a Demo Program.

This is the start of the comment block at the top of the program, like in the other demo programs:

"""
    Adapted from code originally from this fantastic repository:
    https://github.com/nycynik/ascii-font-processor
    Thank you nycynik for a fantastic headstart
"""    

Some of the changes I made include:

• There's a whole new parameter added to Multiline so that one can be created without a scrollbar
• The wrap-length for the figlet is computed based on the width of the Multiline element
• Removed the "show" button. Now the output is generated as the user types
• Made into a single file by removing lots of code

I know you're building something bigger so you need the larger structure of your application. My demo is 46 lines of code so it's quite a bit less of your code, again because I'm doing so much less and don't have the same kind of bigger future waiting for it. I've dot a dead-end road... you've got the start of a highway 👍

You'll find the demo here:
https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI/blob/master/DemoPrograms/Demo_pyfiglet.py

If you would like me to modify the attribution to you in any way, please let me know. Thank you for the inspiration!

I love that you made a screenshot so we can all see what you made. It grabs attention.... it got mine!

Have you seen the User Settings APIs that are now part of PySimpleGUI?

They were added a few releases ago and are not a very important part of the SDK.

I use them for many demos now and are also holding the "global settings" for all of PySimpleGUI.

PySimpleGUI is branching out a little by providing access to other libraries that a PySimpleGUI programmer may want to use:

• Settings (User Settings APIs)
• Starting other programs (Exec APIs)
• Personalizing PySimpleGUI (global settings default theme)

You'll find the newer Demo Programs that have settings that use these new User Settings APIs. There is documentation on using them. NOTE - the Cookbook has an old manual way of creating your own settings file using JSON. The purpose of the User Settings APIs was to replace this technique (I'll replace that recipe).

Here is the primary documentation on them:
https://pysimplegui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?#user-settings-api

In addition to settings windows, they are used for "history" of elements too.

The Demo Browser application is a newer one. Lets look at it:

There is a settings window that uses User Settings:

One of the items in this window is the path to the tree combo box:

It has a history of previously selected items. These items are stored in the same User Settings file as other items in this window.

The point here is that this API is good for a number of uses for programs. You don't have to have a settings window to have a need like this. Any piece of data that you want to store and retrieve later is a good candidate for User Settings.