Hi Sean, Incredible to see what HH did. That is way over my head. And so is LCB.
groeten, William Op wo 18 mei 2022 om 14:16 schreef Sean Cole via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > 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@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@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 > > > > > > eMail Ts & Cs > > > > > > > > > > On 18 May 2022, at 09:40, William de Smet via use-livecode < > > > use-livecode@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 < > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
