Curved text possible?

[Craig Newman]

The polyLine character substitution will be a simple. Creation will be a bear, but only once.

If you had “Hello World” and wanted to “curve” it, you would simply pull the appropriate curved chars, “H”,, “e’, “l, etc. and string them together.

Uh oh, what about kerning? I hope this is a monospaced curved font you are thinking about.

Craig

> On Apr 27, 2022, at 11:52 AM, William de Smet via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> It will be an iOS app.
> 
> 
> groeten,
> 
> William
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Op wo 27 apr. 2022 om 17:45 schreef Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
>> There is not a native way to do this in LiveCode.
>> 
>> An approach might be to use the shell() function (see Dictionary) to
>> pass the text to some external graphics utility that renders and image
>> of it curved and then import the image back into Livecode. There may be
>> other work-arounds.
>> 
>> On 4/27/2022 11:12 AM, William de Smet via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Hi There,
>>> 
>>> I am in the need for curved text.
>>> User input via a text field need to have a copied curved text output.
>>> Is this even possible in Livecode?
>>> I was thinking of text to the points of a path? Something like that?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Greetings William
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