Text box with image wrap?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi All,

I have been racking my brains to find a way to have a single textbox appear to wrap around an image:

............. ............  
| | | pic |  
| | ............  
| |--------------|  
| text box |  
| |  
| |  
----------------------------

I’ve tried the following:

-inserting text into a polygon (fail)
-inserting an image into a textbox (fail)
-“linking” two text boxes and have text flow from one to the other (wait for it – fail!)

an idea, but don’t know how to implement:
-modify Textbox to require a set of coordinates instead of just width and height

I don’t want to make this a single image because I’d like to have dynamic text box filling. Does anyone have any ideas, or am I going to have to look elsewhere for this functionality?

Much obliged for any advice!

–Wheezy [import]uid: 171847 topic_id: 30995 reply_id: 330995[/import]

#2

What about designing and making a local .html file and displaying it using the [lua]native.showWebPopup()[/lua]?

*this way I think you could even scroll its content reasonably.

Cheers,
Rodrigo. [import]uid: 89165 topic_id: 30995 reply_id: 123919[/import]

#3

Why do you need a text box ? Maybe you can do that with simple display.newText().
If you want to edit the text when you tap on it then onTextImageTap() you can copy the text in a textbox out of screen or even on screen but with .alpha = 0.
What do you think? [import]uid: 138389 topic_id: 30995 reply_id: 123935[/import]

#4

What about designing and making a local .html file and displaying it using the [lua]native.showWebPopup()[/lua]?

*this way I think you could even scroll its content reasonably.

Cheers,
Rodrigo. [import]uid: 89165 topic_id: 30995 reply_id: 123919[/import]

#5

Why do you need a text box ? Maybe you can do that with simple display.newText().
If you want to edit the text when you tap on it then onTextImageTap() you can copy the text in a textbox out of screen or even on screen but with .alpha = 0.
What do you think? [import]uid: 138389 topic_id: 30995 reply_id: 123935[/import]