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