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turnip YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8	Text in a shape Jul 4th, 2006, 11:28am   Hi all, What's the best way to put some text inside a particular shape? I'd like to be sure the text isn't going to overflow the shape. Thanks a lot

turnip YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8	Re: Text in a shape Reply #1 - Jul 4th, 2006, 11:31am   Oh, forgot to mention, but I'd like to be able to put the text in the dead centre of the shape.

eskimoblood Senior Member Offline Posts: 341

Re: Text in a shape Reply #2 - Jul 4th, 2006, 12:55pm   Here is a solution for an rectangle Shape: Quote: size(300,300); //drawRect int w=200; int h=40; rect(50,50,w,h); //setFont and String PFont font; font = loadFont("ArialMT-48.vlw"); // set the FontSize to the height of the rect textFont(font, h); String s = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"; float tS=h; //the textSize() is shorten by 1 until the textWidth() smaller then the width of the rect while(textWidth(s)>w){  tS-=1;  textSize(tS);  println(textWidth(s)); } fill(0); //draw the text in the middle of the rect text(s,50+(w-textWidth(s))/2,50+h/2+tS/2);

Andreas Köberle {eskimoblood}

turnip YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8	Re: Text in a shape Reply #3 - Jul 8th, 2006, 9:16pm   Sorry, I forgot to reply to this thread. Thanks for your help. I wasn't very clear, but was actually after the shape being the size of the text, rather than the other way round. However, I was able to kinda "reverse" your solution to get the effect I needed Thanks