Text Tool Thread

Hey everyone,

A small update on the text tool. I’ve been joined by Alvin Wong in working on the text code. We’ve managed to squash a ton of bugs together (as you may have noticed for beta 2), and Alvin implemented synthetic bold and italic (which is more or less required for CJK, as these fonts are so large they rarely have italic and bold versions available), as well as some initial work for on-canvas editing of wrapped text. I too have started work on on-canvas editing of text, with me managing to get a small demo up and running:

I’ll be working on this code here, and hopefully I won’t have too much trouble as we work through this first phase of getting all on-canvas interaction working.