Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Some issues related to the text tool

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:47:47AM +0530, vudem arun wrote:
> I am also thinking of ways in which we change the background image
> when text is selected. The problem that we face here is as follows:
> Suppose the text is entered, and smudge is applied in the area of the
> text.

I think that text entered using this new tool (where text can be edited
later, moved around on the fly, etc.) should NOT be affected by Magic tools,
or painted over.  (Well, ok, if the Move tool or Mirror/Flip tools are used,
the X/Y coordinates of the text would change, but that's it!)

My thought is that we could call this the "Label" tool.
The text acts like it's on a separate layer, similar to the
coloring-book-style starter images.  (Except those literally get applied
to the final drawing canvas after every other draw event.  The Label text
would NEVER get applied to the drawing canvas, except during Save -- either
as an arbitary "ok, you can never edit that text again", which I don't love,
but would be ok with for the time being, or as a kind of 'export'...
i.e., you'd end up with three files:  canvas, text data, canvas with text
blitted on it (suitable for use in other applications, web, email, etc.))

-bill!