At 12:02 PM 8/4/1, Slava Paperno wrote:
> Is imaging Lingo the way to go? Are there other ways?
It's certainly possible to generate bits on the fly, but a more common
approach is to make a half-dozen background captions of different sizes,
and choose among them by the number of characters in the field. (Such art
will compress well.)
One core concept here is to minimize runtime calculations, whether
generating bitmaps procedurally, or rendering vectors at runtime. It's
certainly not impossible to take those paths, but it's generally considered
easier to just swap among a number of pre-rendered balloons of various
sizes.
jd
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