Hi, is there a function that finds out whether a point is placed on a path? Let's say we have a square and we want to know if a and b are on that square or outside.. like this ->

|--------|
|        |  b
|        |
| a      |
|        |
|--------|

a is on/in a square, b is not

Hi @gferreira such distribution is not very even. I am sending result using svg.path, I will try to have a look on it. It seems like an interesting excercise for my drawBot class.

Thanks, Jan

Thanks @gferreira !
I see that this is not ideal, you can only have one segment for this formula. Though in this result some of the segments seem a bit off.

I am sharing result that works fine with use of svg.path, code is included. It is used outside of DrawBot IDE, because I didn't want to bother finding out how to install it there... sorry for that quick dirty parse of the SVG path from string...

import cmath
import drawBot as db
from svg.path import parse_path
path = parse_path('M 300 100 C 100 100 200 200 200 300 L 250 350 L100 950')

def points():
    for i in range(10 + 1):
        i = i * 0.1
        num = complex(path.point(i))
        x, y = num.real, num.imag
        yield (x, y)

db.newDrawing()
x, y = [1000] * 2
db.newPage(x, y)
db.fill(1)
db.rect(0,0,x,y)

db.fill(None)
db.stroke(0)
bezier = db.BezierPath()
bezier.moveTo((300, 100))
bezier.curveTo((100, 100), (200, 200), (200, 300))
bezier.lineTo((250, 350))
bezier.lineTo((100, 950))
db.drawPath(bezier)
db.fill(0)

_points = points()

for order, point in enumerate(_points):
    db.oval(*[val - 5 for val in point], 10, 10)

db.saveImage('testje.png')

Hello,
please, as title questions.. How can I distribute points along a path? Let's say I have a path with two points and I need to equally place 20 points on it, how can I achieve it? Thanks, Jan!!

@gferreira I also believe that you meant
textSize('string')

Hi @gferreira thanks a lot! Perfect..
Jan

Hi, I need to get width of text, including its metrics. When I use this underneath method, it gets width of text, but without metrics. Please, how can I get the full width, please? I need it to animate the text below to move exactly one width of letter.

font_name = 'monaco'
string = 'HHHH'
font_size = 300
fontSize(font_size)
font(font_name)

path = BezierPath()
path.text(string, (0, 0), fontSize=font_size, font=font_name)
left, bottom, right, top = path.bounds()

stroke(0)
strokeWidth(0.1)
for i in range(100):
    for j in range(100):
        line((i * 10, 0), (i * 10, 700))
        
stroke(1, 0, 0)
strokeWidth(2)
line((left, 0), (left, 700))
line((right, 0), (right, 700))
stroke(None)

text_width = right - left
text_height = top - bottom

text(string, (text_width/4,0))
text(string, (0,300))

saveImage('bug.png')

Please, how can I achieve this? I need the stroke to go along letter's contour, not offsetted to be outside of the letter/shape. Thanks!