Curved text possible?

[Sean Cole]

Actually, HH had put up this on his site and kept open for us kindly.
https://hh.on-rev.com/widgets/svgtext.html

At the bottom he describes that it is possible to use SVG to define paths
for the text. How good are you at LCB in being able to manipulate what he
had achieved here?

Sean


On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 12:57, William de Smet via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> @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
> > >>> 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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