@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
