Re: Curved text possible?

2022-05-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
dded 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

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-05-18 Thread William de Smet via use-livecode
gt; > > >> 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. > > >

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-05-18 Thread Sean Cole via use-livecode
t; > >> > > >> I will come back later with my result. > > >> > > >> groeten, > > >> > > >> William > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> Op do 28 apr. 2022 om 17:24 s

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-05-18 Thread William de Smet via use-livecode
n, > >> > >> William > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Op do 28 apr. 2022 om 17:24 schreef Ralph DiMola via use-livecode < > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > >> > >>> +1 > >>> > >>

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-05-18 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
; >>> +1 >>> >>> Ralph DiMola >>> IT Director >>> Evergreen Information Services >>> rdim...@evergreeninfo.net >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com]

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-05-18 Thread William de Smet via use-livecode
ailto:use-livecode-boun...@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 Ma

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-04-28 Thread William de Smet via use-livecode
Evergreen Information Services > rdim...@evergreeninfo.net > > -Original Message- > From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@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:

RE: Curved text possible?

2022-04-28 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
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 wrote: > > I was thinking that SVG might work as someone else

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-04-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
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 > wrote: > > I was thinking that SVG might work as someone else has said. > > At first I thought you could create

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-04-28 Thread Martin Koob via use-livecode
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

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-04-27 Thread doc hawk via use-livecode
I looked at this some years ago. I forget why I wanted to do it (a logo, perhaps?). My conclusion was that the best way would be to write it as either eps or postscript. This gives you something that can be trivially rotated without loss, but the catch is that you have to then feed it to

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-04-27 Thread Craig Newman via use-livecode
The polyLine character substitution will be a simple. Creation will be a bear, but only once. If you had “Hello World” and wanted to “curve” it, you would simply pull the appropriate curved chars, “H”,, “e’, “l, etc. and string them together. Uh oh, what about kerning? I hope this is a

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-04-27 Thread ELS Prothero via use-livecode
Folks, I made a vertically oriented y axis text label for a data plot once. The text was written in a field with a transparent background, then a screen capture of the text field area, then rotating the captured image 90 degrees. It worked great. Obvious limitation was that the background was

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-04-27 Thread William de Smet via use-livecode
Hi Paul, It will be an iOS app. groeten, William Op wo 27 apr. 2022 om 17:45 schreef Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > There is not a native way to do this in LiveCode. > > An approach might be to use the shell() function (see Dictionary) to > pass the text

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-04-27 Thread William de Smet via use-livecode
Hi Craig, The text will mostly be names at start (but could also be more words in the future). Draw with polyLines. Didn't think of that. A lot of coding I think. Then I could also use SVG files to replace the text of the field. Maybe easier to enlarge, rotate a bit and give another

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-04-27 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
There is not a native way to do this in LiveCode. An approach might be to use the shell() function (see Dictionary) to pass the text to some external graphics utility that renders and image of it curved and then import the image back into Livecode. There may be other work-arounds. On

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-04-27 Thread Craig Newman via use-livecode
How large is this curved text? You could certainly create an entire alphabet with polyLines, and insert them as needed to replace a body of text. But if you need 12 point size, those graphics are going to be, er, difficult to do nicely. Craig > On Apr 27, 2022, at 11:12 AM, William de Smet