Curved text possible?

[William de Smet]

@Sean: Yes, a widget would be the best thing of course.
Much appreciated!

groeten,

William




Op wo 18 mei 2022 om 11:41 schreef Pi Digital via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:

> There is a better way to do this using LCB. If you don’t mind waiting I
> can pull something up. I’m out of office at the moment so can’t get to my
> files.
>
> Sean Cole
> Pi Digital Productions Ltd
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> > On 18 May 2022, at 09:40, William de Smet via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I posted a curved text example (with use of the browser widget) on the
> > forum:
> > https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=37027
> >
> > It works ok but still not satisfied with transparency.
> > Maybe someone has a better idea on how to do that?
> >
> >
> >
> > groeten,
> >
> > William
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Op do 28 apr. 2022 om 17:42 schreef William de Smet <
> williamdesmet at gmail.com
> >> :
> >
> >> 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
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> >>> 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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