how do you specify colour for just one piece of text and nothing else in the sketch?

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tonyhaer

how do you specify colour for just one piece of text and nothing else in the sketch?

in Programming Questions • 5 months ago

sorry real newbie here, just wondered how i can just make my text one colour without affecting the colour of my polygons?

// display the customShape
void display() {
    // get the pixel coordinates of the body
    Vec2 pos = box2d.getBodyPixelCoord(body);
    pushMatrix();
    // translate to the position
    translate(pos.x, pos.y);


    noStroke();
    // use the shape's custom color
    fill(col);
    text (s, r/1, r/2);
textSize(r/2);
color(#364B89);

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mentecode

Re: how do you specify colour for just one piece of text and nothing else in the sketch?

5 months ago

If you want one piece of text to be a certain color, you would have to give every text its own color.
Here's an example. The first text is one color, while the rest are plain black.

size(400, 400);
fill(244, 0, 0);
text("First Text", 56, 78);
fill(0);
text("Other Text", 100, 120);
text("Other Text", 120, 140);
text("Other Text", 140, 160); //And this keeps going.

- MenteCode.

tonyhaer

Re: how do you specify colour for just one piece of text and nothing else in the sketch?

5 months ago

thanks i need to take the text out of this bit of code i think as its always going to affect my polygon as well. its a pain as i wanted the text "S" to move on top of each polygon in exactly the same manner but with a different color.

Chrisir

Re: how do you specify colour for just one piece of text and nothing else in the sketch?

5 months ago

that isn't a problem.

just use

fill.............
text............
fill.............
ellipse.............

It is true that fill is doing the color for both text and ellipse but you can tell with fill immediately before text or ellipse what color you want.

tonyhaer

Re: how do you specify colour for just one piece of text and nothing else in the sketch?

5 months ago

Thankyou! ill give it a try, incidentally instead of text could i load a gif with an alpha channel instead in a similar way? so it was over the eclipse?

Chrisir

Re: how do you specify colour for just one piece of text and nothing else in the sketch?

5 months ago

yeah, when you want an image over the ellipse you need to draw ellipse first and then the image (gif) afterwards.

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