Curved text possible?

[Ralph DiMola]

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Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net

-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2022 11:18 AM
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: Bob Sneidar
Subject: Re: Curved text possible?

Great ideas Martin. I'm going to grant you an honorary doctorate from the
institute of Sly Laboratories. 

Bob S


> On Apr 28, 2022, at 08:10 , Martin Koob via use-livecode
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I was thinking that SVG might work as someone else has said.
> 
> At first I thought you could create individual files for each letter and
number and put the path for a letter into a svg widget which you could
rotate or scale.
> you would then have to calculate the angle of rotation and location of
each svg widget on a path.   But then when I tried rotating the svg widget
its scale would change as it rotated because the bounds of the rect were
changing. Then you would have to calculate the scale depending on the
rotation angle and that seemed a bit much.
> 
> I also thought you could import the svg file as an image and perhaps that
would not have the odd behaviour when rotating.  I did not try that though.
> 
> Then I found this.
> 
> https://css-tricks.com/snippets/svg/curved-text-along-path/
<https://css-tricks.com/snippets/svg/curved-text-along-path/>
> 
> it shows how to use css to put text along a SVG path.  At the LiveCode Dev
Con there were a few unconventional uses of the browser widget beyond
displaying webpages that add features that can add features that LiveCode
does not have natively.  So I thought maybe this is one of them.  So what I
thought could be done is display the above in a browser widget or,  If you
did not want to show the browser widget, use the browser widget to render
the curved text, thentake a snapshot of the rendered text and then show that
in an image.
> 
> Not sure if it will work but the sessions at the conference have really
got me thinking of new ways to leverage the technology in that widget.
> 
> Martin Koob


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