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spiral0ut83
Text With Stroke - how to?
Feb 6th, 2009, 5:20pm  

What is the easiest way to have text with a stroke
 outline?

I have been doing a good deal of searching for this issue,
 but did not seem to come up with any example of this.

 I hope it has not been answered in another thread.
 
 Thanks.
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spiral0ut83
Re: Text With Stroke - how to?
Reply #1 - Feb 6th, 2009, 6:25pm  
I actually came up with something - but please let me know if there is a better solution.

 This method works but is kind of crappy.

  Would definitely break for larger thickness values.


//This is an eclipse example of this
// - remove all ref to the PApplet  
//   if used in a sketch
public void borderText(PApplet papParent,
                      String pstrText,
                      int pintThickness,
                      int pintX,
                      int pintY,
                      Color pclrStroke,
                      Color pclrFill){ 

    papParent.fill(pclrStroke.getRed(),pclrStroke.getGreen(),pclrStroke.getBlue(),pc
lrStroke.getAlpha());

    papParent.text(pstrText,pintX+pintThickness,pintY);
    papParent.text(pstrText,pintX-pintThickness,pintY);
    papParent.text(pstrText,pintX,pintY+pintThickness);
    papParent.text(pstrText,pintX,pintY-pintThickness);
   
    papParent.fill(pclrFill.getRed(),pclrFill.getGreen(),pclrFill.getBlue(),pclrFill
.getAlpha());

    papParent.text(pstrText,pintX,pintY);

 }
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