title: Python kivy - how to reduce height of TextInput
body: <p>I am using kivy to make a very simple gui for an application. Nothing complex, very simple layout.</p>
  
  <p>Nevertheless I am having a hard time with TextInputs...They always display with full height and I can't manage to make them adjust to a "reasonable" text-height like height.</p>
  
  <p>I am using the kv files style since I find it cleaner and easier to integrate it in an already existing app...I would like to reduce as much as possible the gui-python code of the app.</p>
  
  <p>Here is what I got for the TextInput (useless to add other parts of the gui).</p>
  
  <p><strong>Python code</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code># textInput.py
  from kivy import require
  from kivy.app import App
  from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
  from kivy.lang.builder import Builder
  
  Builder.load_file('path/to/kv/file/textInput.kv')
  
  require('1.10.0')
  
  class MainScreen(BoxLayout):
      pass
  
  class Test(App):
      def build(self):
          self.title = 'Testing textInput'
          return MainScreen()
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      Test().run()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>KV code</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code># textInput.kv
  &lt;MainScreen&gt;
      orientation: 'vertical'
  
      # Third section title
      Label:
          size_hint: (1, .1)
          text: 'Setup Connection'
          font_size: 25
  
      # Third section Box
      BoxLayout:
          size_hint: (1, .2)
          padding: [100, 0, 100, 0]
          BoxLayout:
              Label:
                  size_hint: (.2, 1)
                  text: 'Host'
              TextInput:
                  height: self.minimum_height
                  multiline: False
                  text: 'localhost'
              Label:
                  size_hint: (.2, 1)
                  text: ''
              Label:
                  size_hint: (.2, 1)
                  text: 'Port'
              TextInput:
                  size_hint: (.2, 1)
                  multiline: False
                  text: '502'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried lot of stuff, in the code here I am trying both to use size_hint and height...but none works..</p>