draw tool for text?

Marian Petrides mpetrides at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 2 17:28:10 EDT 2004


cool, Jim.  Thanks!


On Sep 2, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Jim Hurley wrote:

>>
>> Message: 18
>> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:30:34 -0500
>> From: Louis Janus <janus005 at umn.edu>
>> Subject: draw tool for text?
>> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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>>
>> While I know that most text in these programs belongs in one of the
>> many varieties of fields, I would like to add some letters along a
>> freehand curve -- not necessarily straight horizontal. I think most
>> other draw-like programs let me do this. As a bad attempt at
>> overcoming this, I painted the letters using the paintbrush -- but it
>> looks like a 1st grader's first attempt at carving the alphabet.
>>
>> Any suggestions? (I am using Dreamcard).
>
>
> Louis,
>
> This probably isn't quite what you are looking for but it is a poor 
> man's implementation which will give you text on a curve.  You will 
> need Turtle Graphics for this. See RunRev's Dreamcard web site at: 
> http://downloads.runrev.com/stacks_apps/#learn Download the Turtle 
> Graphic stack.
>
> The handler:
>
> on mouseUP
>   put "This is a semicircle" into tMessage
>   put the number of chars in tMessage into tNum
>   startTurtle
>   setHeading 90
>   penUp
>   repeat with i = 1 to tNum
>     forward 20
>     right 180/tNum
>     label char i of tMessage
>   end repeat
> end mouseUP
>
> will draw the text "This is a semicircle" on a semicircle.
>
> Jim
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