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 <williamdes...@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@lists.runrev.com>: > >> +1 >> >> Ralph DiMola >> IT Director >> 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: 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@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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode