Re: WebDrawingArea - Paint.Text function missing

[Linus <olivier.cruilles@xxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Benoit, I will test it soon.

Olivier

> Le 29 août 2025 à 16:46, Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
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> Le 28/08/2025 à 20:41, Bruce Steers a écrit :
>> Re-submitted anyway.
>> https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/merge_requests/400 <https:// gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/merge_requests/400>
>> It adds Paint.Font, Paint.FillText and Paint.StrokeText to the mix.
>> Paint font is a css string https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/ pr_font_font.php <https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_font.php>
>> that's what the canvas wants, wasn't sure how to make it WebFont or if Benoit would think it should be or not.
>> Because Canvas has it's own fillText and strokeText functions i emulated them instead of using a method that would then use Paint.Stroke or Paint.Fill after.
>> Respects
>> BruceS
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 'Paint.DrawText()' and 'Paint.Font' were implemented in 'gb.web.gui' since the last commit.
> 
> There is now a Font class, but only for Paint.
> 
> The WebControl has its own custom string 'Font' property, that is not compatible. I will see if I can make WebControl understand this new Font class.
> 
> I kept 'Paint.StrokeText()' and 'Paint.FillText()', but I'm not sure that I won't remove them, because they are canvas specific.
> 
> By the way, canvas font support is really cumbersome, so you can't do all what you can do with the GUI toolkits.
> 
> For example, I had to implement multiline text drawing with custom javascript, because the canvas text routines are only single line!
> 
> And there is no support for text decoration (underline, strikeout...) apparently.
> 
> Anyway, enjoy it!
> 
> -- 
> Benoît Minisini.
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