Curved text possible?

[William de Smet]

Thanks!

I came up with sort of the same idea yesterday evening and I am tetsting it
now.
I load a local html file within the browser widget with circletype.js added
to the html file.

A native textfield (and some extra code) writes back into the html file and
then I refresh the card.
A snapshot gives me the curved text.

There is also Arctext,js that I want to test.

I will come back later with my result.

groeten,

William




Op do 28 apr. 2022 om 17:24 schreef Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:

> +1
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
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> -----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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