vertical text

I had a look inside textbrick jsui and found out what makes it tick. Here's my own less clever version that I've been tinkering with recently. If you hook up a [key] object to it then it'll work like a sideways [textedit] more or less. There's obviously quite a few things that it doesn't do just yet. I haven't set functions for changing colours or interfacing with the pattr system or saving the text contents with the patcher which are all possible. It also doesn't have a cursor which could be a bit annoying but the highlighting should make it a bit clearer. It should help you straight out of the box but if you know a bit of javascript dive right in and make some changes/additions, if you do then please get back to me about it!

lh

// textdraw.js
var rot_sketch = new Sketch(sketch.size[1],sketch.size[0]);
var selected = 0;
var hl = [0.9, 0.9, 0.9, 1];
var bg = [1, 1, 1, 1];

var t_size = 20;
var t_font = "Arial";
var t_halign = "left";
var t_valign = "centre";
var t_dir = 0;

var k_all = [];
var k_text;

var vborder = 8;
var hborder = 8;
var mod = 5;

x = arrayfromargs(jsarguments); // make function append compatable
for (i=1; i
{
for (j=0; j
k_all.push(x[i].charAt(j));
if (i != x.length-1)
k_all.push(" ");
}
k_text = k_all.join("");
draw();

function draw()
{
with (rot_sketch)
{
if (selected == 1)
glclearcolor(hl);
glclear();
if (t_dir == 1)
moveto(screentoworld(vborder,t_size+hborder-mod));
else
moveto(screentoworld(vborder,sketch.size[0]-hborder));
fontsize(t_size);
font(t_font);
textalign(t_halign, t_valign);
text(k_text);
}
var rot_image = new Image(rot_sketch);
rot_image.swapxy();
if (t_dir == 1)
rot_image.flip(0,1);
else
rot_image.flip(1,0);
sketch.copypixels(rot_image);
refresh();
}

function onidleout()
{
selected = 0;
rot_sketch.glclearcolor(bg);
draw();
}

function onidle()
{
rot_sketch.glclearcolor(hl);
draw();
}

function onclick()
{
selected = 1;
}

function msg_int(k_new)
{
if (selected == 1)
{
if (k_new == 13)
{
selected = 0;
rot_sketch.glclearcolor(bg);
}
else if (k_new == 8 ) // stupid forum!
k_all.splice(k_all.length-1,1);
else
k_all.push(String.fromCharCode(k_new));
k_text = k_all.join("");
draw();
}
}

function ondblclick()
{
clear();
}

function clear()
{
k_text = "";
k_all = [];
draw();
}

function direction(x)
{
t_dir = x;
draw();
}

function onresize()
{
rot_sketch = new Sketch(sketch.size[1],sketch.size[0]);
draw();
}

function fontname(x)
{
t_font = x;
draw();
}

function fontsize(x)
{
t_size = x;
draw();
}

function append()
{
x = arrayfromargs(arguments);
for (i=0; i
{
for (j=0; j
k_all.push(x[i].charAt(j));
if (i != x.length-1)
k_all.push(" ");
}
k_text = k_all.join("");
draw();
}
// EOF