Text squeares and bubbles. [Feature Request]

[JFC263]

I think it could be a very usefull tool to use.

[ghost]

@JFC263 what would it do?

[JFC263]

it would just be able to stick text in the piskel to make banners easier to make

[juliandescottes]

This could be handled as a new tool but it's going to be a complex one. We have no similar tool at the moment.

Text insertion usually means choosing a font-family and a font-size. Since we don't have configurable tools, this will either need to be implemented for this feature, or we'll need to limit this to a single font-family/size.

Then regardless of this, the tool should work as follows:

• click on the tool
• click anywhere in the sprite
• a text edition session starts
• if user types characters, they are previewed in the overlay frame
• user can navigate in the text using arrows
• user can delete characters using [delete]/[backspace]
• if user clicks in the sprite or presses [enter], the text is validated and inserted in the frame
• if the user presses [escape], the text is removed

Some additional details:

• the text color should be the current primary color
• once the text edition session is terminated the text is purely transformed to pixels in the frame, and can no longer be edited as text
• a caret should be displayed

Technically speaking, we might be able to reuse the text APIs on Canvas2D. However I'm afraid of antialiasing that might result in semi transparent colors when inserting text on a transparent background.

[JFC263]

Thank you so much but I would rather it having fonts that the pc/laptop owner has installed

[rajsite]

BitFontMaker has a lot of pixel fonts with open licenses and an online font editor to make / remix fonts

Maybe the creator would expose the underlying data instead of the generated ttf files (or maybe the ttf files will work well enough with Canvas2D)