How to Turn a Word Into a Graphic Object?

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Fri Mar 27 10:27:00 EDT 2015


Hi,

That's what I did in the solution I posted. I made it a long time ago 
and now I don't remember why I didn't use the formattedRect. It would 
probably be easier to use the formattedRect.

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On 3/27/2015 15:16, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> The selectedLoc will give you the pixel location of the selection. Then you can use the formattedwidth and formattedheight to calculate the rectangle for the snapshot. When the snapshot is made, the variable "it"  will contain the long ID of the new image. So immediately after making the snapshot, "set the name of it to myname".
>
>
> On March 27, 2015 1:28:46 AM CDT, Brahmanathaswami <brahma at hindu.org> wrote:
>> I'm looking for a way to quickly turn words into graphic objects
>> programmatically.
>>
>> If you have a field with the words
>>
>> "I am that I am"
>>
>> you can programmatically select each word and highlight it etc. but I
>> don't think you can get the actual pixel location of the rect that the
>> hilite takes on the screen... which, theoretically should be doable,
>> since everything must be drawn on screen, everything has x,y coords and
>>
>> width and height.
>>
>> Assuming the rect of a hilited word *could* be extracted, then it would
>>
>> be easy to take a import a snap shot of it.
>>
>> an auxiliary question: when using "import snapshot" ... how can you set
>>
>> the name of the resulting image that is placed on the top of the card.
>> It defaults to (e.g.) "image id 6578"  but one cannot know that ID...
>> is
>> there another way to refer to the latest created object?
>>
>> Swasti Astu, Be Well!
>> Brahmanathaswami
>>
>>
>>
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