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Euskadi
two text problems
Apr 23rd, 2005, 3:18am  
ok... i found my text had disappeared... fixed by switching my textMode( to textAlign(


But now I have two problems:
1) my text is all really big, and poorly drawn
2) my font.width thing is undercalculating width by a factor of 10.

help?

I figured out #2. Use textFont followed by textWidth. Holy moly.

Still can't figure out #1.
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fry
Re: two text problems
Reply #1 - Apr 23rd, 2005, 4:02am  
try re-creating your font with "create font", i found a bunch of text sizing issues between 69 and 85, and having fixed them, things should now be much closer to regular applications (i.e. 24 point text in illustrator should be closer to 24 point text in processing).

i'll add textWidth() to the faq.. we hadn't documented font.width() before but i forgot it was in examples and how many ppl were using it.
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Euskadi
Re: two text problems
Reply #2 - Apr 23rd, 2005, 5:40am  
all is now right with the world.
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Suggestion: in the FAQ create a "what will break" section so people can search for "text" and see all the things that have changed for text.

For me, I replaced ALIGN_ with "" so my textMode(ALIGN_RIGHT) became textMode(RIGHT).  Hmm. Apparently the textMode function isn't clever enough to puke on me when i throw a 39 at it??  It just happily runs and displays nothing. Poo.

Anyway, only two days to make the big change. Thanks for the support.
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fry
Re: two text problems
Reply #3 - Apr 23rd, 2005, 5:46am  
what's wrong with the changes page?
http://processing.org/faq/changes.html

ALIGN_RIGHT doesn't exist anymore so it should've given you an error, did that not happen?
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Euskadi
Re: two text problems
Reply #4 - Apr 23rd, 2005, 5:57am  
the changes page is good. i just needed a blunt object beating me on the head saying "if you text breaks, focus here".

I used textMode(RIGHT) and that didn't not break. it ran, and displayed nothing. Technically my fault for not getting the complete message.
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fry
Re: two text problems
Reply #5 - Apr 30th, 2005, 5:55am  
error message added for 86.
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