SwiftUI - How to Preallocating space for multiple lines of text - swiftui

In my view I have some text that changes. So ...
Text("Text that changes and may wrap")
Because there are multiple of these text on screen as well as other SwiftUI components I want the text components to occupy the space required for two lines of text regards of how much text they contain. This is so when the text changes the UI doesn't jink around due to the text resizing.
So I'd like these two to occupy the same space:
+-------------------------------+
| A short piece of text |
| |
+-------------------------------+
+-------------------------------+
| A longer piece of text that |
| wraps around. |
+-------------------------------+
However I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this as there doesn't appear to be any property of a Text component that specifies how many lines to display.
anyone know how to specify the height of a text component based on the lines? Some sort of fixed size based on the font and line spacing perhaps?

For anyone whose interested, here's what I ended up doing:
ZStack {
// This creates the vertical space of two lines so the
// actual text doesn't change size when it wraps to two lines.
Text("\n")
.foregroundColor(.clear)
Text(variableText)
.frame(maxWidth: .infinity)
.multilineTextAlignment(.trailing)
.lineLimit(2)
}

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Here is my layout:
I have a sizer that contains a grid (with a proportion of 1) and a ok/cancel button bar
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Here it is:
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| GRID |
| |
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EDIT
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I'm still getting used to the sizers in wxWidgets, and as such can't seem to make them do what I want.
I want a large panel that will contain a list of other panels/boxes, which each then contain a set of text fields
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I also need to be able to add (at the end), and remove(anywhere) these boxes.
If there's too many to fit in the containing panel a vertical scroll bar is also required.
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Also what's the best way to lay out the contents of each box? I was thinking of using a 2 by 2 grid sizer but I'm not sure how to make the text boxes to expand to be as wide as possible while making the labels stay as small as possible (but also maintaining the alignment between the 2 text boxes)?
"If theres too many to fit in the containing panel a vertical scroll bar is also required."
You could have a look at wxScrolledWindow.
"additional added items are just a small box in the top left of the main panel"
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"Also whats the best way to lay out the contents of each box?"
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May I suggest to you to post this question to one of the wxWidgets mailing list? They will be able to help you very quickly.
Can I also recommend the wxForum, I have found it very useful for wxWidgets questions in the past.
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