Is there a way to dynamically set the maximum height of a layout ?

[pganson]

I'm trying to write a Layout to the console and reserve a few lines at the bottom of the screen for console.input(); I also want
to make the output responsive to possible changes in the size of the console / screen.

Can someone point me to an example of what I'm trying to accomplish or give me a code snippet to do this ? My latest unsuccessful attempt to control the height of the formatted output is below - look for the "<--":

    layout = Layout(name="root")
    layout.split(
        Layout(name="header", size=3),
        Layout(name="main", ratio=1),
        Layout(name="save_stats_and_unsaved", size=4),
        Layout(name="errors", size=6),
    )
    layout["main"].split_row(
        Layout(name="left_side"),
        Layout(name="words_by_length", ratio=2, minimum_size=60),
        Layout(name="words_by_order"),
    )

    # (extraneous code not posted)

    with console.screen() as screen:
        while True:
            layout["words_by_order"].update(function1())
            layout["save_stats_and_unsaved"].update(function2())
            layout["words_by_length"].update(function3())

            layout["root"].height = console.height - 4  # <-- restrict the height of the formatted output
            layout["root"].ratio = None
            console.clear()
            screen.update(layout)

            input_line = console.input("\nenter a word: ")
            # process the input, yadda yadda yadda

Thanks in advance.

[pganson]

I found a solution after digging into the source code for "rich". I discarded this (from my original post):

            layout["root"].height = console.height - 4  # <-- restrict the height of the formatted output
            layout["root"].ratio = None

and added this in its place:

            _width, _height = shutil.get_terminal_size()
            console.size = (_width-1, _height-4)

by the way, I'm running Windows 10, Python 3.7 and testing my results in cmd.exe and PyCharm