Difference between revisions of "OnCanvasTextEditing"
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* Paste styles sets the style attributes for the active layer to the values most recently "copied" (if any). | * Paste styles sets the style attributes for the active layer to the values most recently "copied" (if any). | ||
* Tool options does not include font or size or colour. These are only now available in the editing controls, and in Preferences for defaults, to reduce confusion. | * Tool options does not include font or size or colour. These are only now available in the editing controls, and in Preferences for defaults, to reduce confusion. | ||
+ | * The text editing controls is by default on canvas but can be detached. When detached, there are options to use the default system font for editing, with a preview checkbox, and to load/save to/from an external file (which uses Pango markup?) | ||
− | + | Because text editing is complex there are a lot of possible controls. Most people will want only a few of them at any one time. Therefore, they are arranged in groups, and the groups can be shown or hidden in Tool Options. | |
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Revision as of 03:24, 27 December 2021
[this is a very incomplete draft. Pictures are coming too.]
Text-mode cursor and the active text layer
- I-beam size is equal to line height for default font, or for current font if there is an active text box, with a mark for baseline position
- The direction of the I-beam is perpendicular to the text direction (e.g. horizontal for vertical text).
- Clicking anywhere on the canvas (or outside it?) creates a new text box and activates it, with the initial baseline where the mark in the I-beam was when the click was made.
- Clicking inside an existing text layer activates the text layer.
- When the active layer is a text layer and the text tool is current, the active layer's text box is activated.
- Clicking outside an existing activated text layer creates a new text layer and activates it
- Activating a text layer sets it to be the active layer and draws text editing controls.
Text editing controls
- A new text layer by default inherits the style attributes set in Preferences for the text tool.
- Tool Options for the text tool includes buttons, "save styles as default", "copy styes" and "paste styles".
- Copy styles "copies" the style attributes for the current location within the current text layer (if any)
- Paste styles sets the style attributes for the active layer to the values most recently "copied" (if any).
- Tool options does not include font or size or colour. These are only now available in the editing controls, and in Preferences for defaults, to reduce confusion.
- The text editing controls is by default on canvas but can be detached. When detached, there are options to use the default system font for editing, with a preview checkbox, and to load/save to/from an external file (which uses Pango markup?)
Because text editing is complex there are a lot of possible controls. Most people will want only a few of them at any one time. Therefore, they are arranged in groups, and the groups can be shown or hidden in Tool Options.