I do ALL my graphics externally except for snapshots of textFields.
To turn a textField should be no more complicated than:
1. export snapshot of textField (border? backGroundColor? textColor? font?),
2. rotate it in graphics package of choice (GIMP, Photoshop, etc.),
3. import into stack as an image.
Typing "at an angle" is probably more trouble than it's worth in terms
of developer
time.
Richmond.
On 20.11.2016 14:07, Malte Brill wrote:
Sorry for hijacking the thread...
TL/DR: Do we have Text input into widgets? How can we get our feet wet easier
with that stuff?
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Richard wrote:
I have maybe two apps across all my computing devices that let me edit
rotated text, but I have dozens that display text in a variety of
formats (date, phone number, currency, etc.).
Well, if we had a means of textinput inside a widget, this would be easy enough
to implement I guess, I may just have overlooked it if it exists.
Is text input into a widget possible right now? If so, where do I find
documentation on that? If not is that on the roadmap?
I would be really interested going there. Frankly, the first widget that peeked
my interest was the calendar that was posted by Bernd. I follow what Herrmann
does, but still for what I would need / want to do, I would require a means of
keyboard input into the widget.
Of course it is possible to code your way around this using what we have right
now. A field and making clever use of the message path. This has not gone away
(yet). However for me widgets appeared as the way forward to creating custom
objects that appear as ONE object to the engine instead of using groups, which
are frankly a tad bit brittle as it stands. Oh how often have I screwed up a
template group I created that then should have been cloned into a dynamically
created UI. Headaches I would have hoped to save myself from with widgets by
now.
I still do not see builder being at the point where it might be usefull for me.
Still in the interim. Still too early. Still not enough learning material on
how to get your feet wet with this stuff. Creating a pink circle is good. What
are the next steps? I miss easy to follow tutorials to find that information!
What is in the Roadmap and expected to arrive when? Those are the questions
that keep me from being bothered looking into that stuff yet. I trust myself
that I could contribute one widget or the other to the community if it was
easier to find the hows! This is not meant as a rant. I still considder the
transition to next gen LiveCode to be in progress. That is fine. It looks like
it is getting somewhere. Still, and I hope you do not mind me saying that, I
considder everything that followed 6.x being interims versions that needed to
be released to keep the userbase from tapping their feet too much and keep the
boat afloat financially. That is ok for me. Some of the new stuff is really
useful already but it comes for a price. LC is not yet in a state of
optimization. Pet peeve, benchmarking, but we had that already. Fact is my apps
got a whole lot slower with 7 and 8 compared to 5.x and 6.x.. Upside is that
this exposed quite a few places where my scripts were inefficient. Doing my
part in fixing my stuff. This makes it tolarable in 7 and 8, but the petty is,
blazingly fast in 5 / 6. I would rather see stuff we have now being optimized
and in turn live with a slower path of Dev releases, which frankly I do not get
around testing much anyways these days. Once I find the time to test 8.X 8.Z is
released already. I then run my benchmarking on the areas I know affect my
apps, see not much of a change there, shrug it off and go back to daily
business.This is not yet the next gen livecode I have been kissing in my
dreams. It might become it once it matures, but for now I think it still needs
to go out a bit and play on the lawn, before I can ask it on a date. ;-)
Cheers,
Malte
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