If you just want to display text, use the Widget widget ;)
2009/7/5 Wojciech Jaczewski <[email protected]>
> I tried to display custom text on top of an image. My first attempt was to
> use InvisibleBox as below:
>
> int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
> fltk::register_images();
> fltk::Window * window = new fltk::Window(0, 0, 480, 640, "Test");
> window->begin();
>
> window->image(new
> fltk::TiledImage(fltk::SharedImage::get("test.png")));
> fltk::InvisibleBox * b = new fltk::InvisibleBox(60, 120, 340, 80,
> "Sample text.");
> b->labelfont(fltk::COURIER_BOLD);
> b->labelsize(28);
>
> window->end();
> window->show(argc, argv);
>
> return fltk::run();
> }
>
> but in this example even "Sample text." is not visible. I can't find any
> predefined box type, that allows to display text on top of other widget
> (image on my example) with no background and no border.
> I created custom class by some mindless copy-paste from src/UpBox.cxx:
>
> struct BoxNoBackground : public fltk::Box {
> void _draw(const fltk::Rectangle & r) const {}
> BoxNoBackground() : fltk::Box("xyz") { set_inset(1); }
> };
> static BoxNoBackground bnb;
> static fltk::Box * const BOX_NO_BACKGROUND = &bnb;
>
> and further use:
> b->box(BOX_NO_BACKGROUND);
>
> but it would be strange if there isn't solution without creating custom
> class.
> What is the preferred way to display text on top of other widget?
>
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