Timeline for Draw a traceable text on graphics 2D
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| Apr 24, 2024 at 10:43 | comment | added | Holger |
@MadProgrammer correct. That’s not how fonts work. There’s a reason why these kind of fonts are literally called "outline fonts". The ordinary appearance is solid, because the outline is filled. That’s what Graphics2D’s fill method does. But by passing the result of createStrokedShape to fill, the OP emulated a call to the draw method.
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| Apr 24, 2024 at 0:13 | comment | added | g00se |
Perhaps you're right. I think what is required is a single dashed line. So as you hinted, generating Paths might be the way to go
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| Apr 24, 2024 at 0:06 | comment | added | MadProgrammer | @g00se Based on the available information, the OP want's to start with a "dashed" line which the user can then trace, rather then having a solid line. I've not been able to find away to get the "chord" path of the font, based on what little I know, I don't think that's how fonts work | |
| Apr 23, 2024 at 23:51 | comment | added | g00se | Well I thought that the idea was to have the kids trace on top of an existing digit. But let's await clarification | |
| Apr 23, 2024 at 23:41 | comment | added | MadProgrammer |
@g00se But, what I think the OP is trying to do, is apply a custom stroke to the text rendering, so you'd get a dashed line through the "core" of the text, not it's outline, so, no, I don't think that's achievable via the Font and Graphics workflows
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| Apr 23, 2024 at 23:18 | comment | added | g00se |
Actually using Font is probably the easiest way to get numbers to trace. The reason I used an image was that was at 'the bottom' of MadProgrammer's painting routine to which I've linked and it was the painting bit I wanted to show. What you can do is to combine showing the numbers via Font with painting (tracing on top of them)
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| Apr 23, 2024 at 23:05 | comment | added | MadProgrammer |
I suspect that you're running in the wrong direction. I wouldn't try and use the Font workflow, instead, I'd try and create the shapes yourself. This could be done by either creating or finding a SVG source which had a "core" path (not outline) and then doing something like this to convert it to a Shape, this way you don't run into weird font scaling issues and have a lot more control
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| Apr 23, 2024 at 22:30 | comment | added | WJS | The following might be a useful alternative stackoverflow.com/questions/21039498/… | |
| Apr 23, 2024 at 22:06 | comment | added | Quillion | @g00se Ah I finally understood what you said from the explanation you provided. I intend to print what I draw on the Graphics2D, and have them trace it with the pen. | |
| Apr 23, 2024 at 22:03 | answer | added | g00se | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 23, 2024 at 21:59 | comment | added | Quillion | Draw string simply draws a string that's solid and not dashed. It's not traceable. | |
| Apr 23, 2024 at 21:56 | comment | added | g00se |
I would do something like @MadProgrammer does here using an image like this Put g2.setStroke(new BasicStroke(5f)); into mouseDragged
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| Apr 23, 2024 at 21:20 | comment | added | g00se |
Surely you'd be getting nearer to allowing your children to trace that 3 if you just called drawString with the correct coordinates?
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| Apr 23, 2024 at 21:03 | history | asked | Quillion | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
