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
