Textsprite

A text sprite is like a regular sprite but instead of loading an image, it can display text using CSS notation.


create routine as Start launch example end

create textsprite as example
where x=100 and
  y=100 and
  text="Example Text" and
  color="rgb(242,129,142)" and
  blur=5 and
  shadow="blue" and
  font="bold 48px sans-serif" and
  style="fill" and
  xshadow=5 and
  yshadow=3
end

Parameters

NOTE: regular sprite parameters apply, plus these text specific parameters.

align="{string}": "center", "left", or "right" in in double-quotations marks
blur="{number}": the width of the blur applied to the shadow of the text - it must be in quotes to work with iOS
color="{string}": a color value represented in any CSS format
font="{string}": specify font parameters using the CSS shorthand format for fonts
shadow="{string}": specify a text shadow using a color value represented in any CSS format
style="{fill|stroke}": specify how the text is drawn, as filled or just stroked (default=fill)
text="{string}": the text to display in double-quotations marks
xshadow={number}: the horizontal offset of the text shadow
yshadow={number}: the vertical offset of the text shadow