Add text annotation feature

bk138 / gromit-mpx

Gromit-MPX is an on-screen annotation tool that works with any Unix desktop environment under X11 as well as Wayland.

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Add text annotation feature #104

Open bk138 opened 4 years ago

bk138 commented 4 years ago

Text annotation: for example, point to the beginning of the text, and a cursor is rendered and a single line of non-formatted text can be placed in the screen, with the current color;

If you'd like to put out an incentive for implementing this feature, you can do so at https://issuehunt.io/r/bk138/gromit-mpx

matteg commented 3 years ago

When I used windows I daily used the Snagit utility ( https://www.techsmith.com/store/snagit ) to annotate screenshots. I would dearly love the ability to annotate my desktop screen with keyboard text in my choice of colours.

Cybernetic1 commented 2 years ago

I'd like to contribute. Which file(s) and where abouts should I start looking at? Thanks :)

bk138 commented 2 years ago

I'd like to contribute. Which file(s) and where abouts should I start looking at? Thanks :)

Nice! You basically have to read through the source:

callbacks is generally all gtk callbacks
config handles .ini and .cfg file parsing
drawing contains everything drawing related
input handles input
main has the entry point and some general purpose functions

Please also see https://github.com/bk138/gromit-mpx/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md