Hi fireball,
I suggest that you add the content and then set the properties.
Otherwise the result of getBBox may well be wrong. There are many
properties that affect how text is rendered that will be inherited where the
element is inserted in the document, so any calculation you make outside of
it's final place in the document has a decent chance of being wrong.
If you add it and set the properties in one Runnable (sent to the
UpdateManager's RunnableQueue) then it won't be rendered until your runnable
exits.
If you really need to do this outside of the document (and I strong
recommend against it in general) you can check out the link Jonathan gave for
booting the SVG & CSS Dom. However once again I must point out that for that
to give you useful results the CSS context must be the same as where it will
eventually be inserted into the document.
Thomas
On Sep 27, 2012, at 10:16 AM, fireball <samiib...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I think I might know what is happening. Correct me if I am wrong.
>
> The BBox is computed after the text is rendered. And my understanding of
> rendering is that it happens when the text element is added to the canvas.
>
> What I am trying to do here is load an SVG file into a document, set some
> properties and then add it into the canvas. Since I am trying to set
> properties before adding to canvas, BBox is not computed yet.
>
> Is there a way to do that before adding to canvas?
>
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