Re: WebDrawingArea - Paint.Text function missing

[Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 at 21:46, Benoît Minisini <
benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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


Great work Ben, thank you.

some way to stroke or fill text is nice.
currently with the strokeText and fillText I added we have more options to
paint solid or outlined text with gradient colors

not sure if it can be done like gb.gui with Paint.Text() followed by a Fill
or Stroke

Respects
BruceS