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
