[snippet] gtext

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ScottyDelicious Reply #11, 20 years, 6 months ago

Quote from: yentsun at Mar 28, 2006, 07:24 PM

Couldn’t get this to work...

First try - the parser gave me an error message like
somethingttfbox function expected parameter 1 to be double, but sting was given
- I removed fontsize from the parameters

Second try - parser gave this
Couldn't open font
I looked throught the code of this snippet and didn’t find any absolute filepaths (which as I know are required for this php-ttf functions to locate the tff-file, smth. like "/home/prsound/public_html/assets/files/fonts/font.ttf""). I wonder how the snippet should work in this part... yeah, I’ve put the ttf file into assets/files/fonts/ - didn’t help. So I currenly use Etomite snippet (MakeImage) for this, hope to use yours though.

call it like this:

[[gtext? &font=`myfont.ttf` &fontsize=`10` &color=`#ffffff` &bgcolor=`#000000` &text=`My Text`]]

I tried this on my site inside a [*TV*] by calling it like this:

<img alt="My Text" src="[[gtext? &font=`myfont.ttf` &fontsize=`10` &color=`#ffffff` &bgcolor=`#000000` &text=`My Text`]]" />

Thanks for this snippet paladin. It works great!

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yentsun Reply #12, 20 years, 6 months ago

Oh well! That worked okay!! BTW... what is the difference giving parameters with or without "`"? Thanks

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Ryan Thrash Reply #13, 20 years, 6 months ago

Without the question-mark it theoretically should not work.

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ScottyDelicious Reply #14, 20 years, 6 months ago

Sorry to interject Ryan,
but I think the question mark above was punctuation to his question.
As to the question, AFAIK the tick (` above the tab key) is used in snippets to visually separate variable strings specified in the snippet call to be passed to the snippet. However, I have had successful execution of snippets with and without the ticks.

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Ryan Thrash Reply #15, 20 years, 6 months ago

LOL ... (note to self... slow down on occasion)

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0ad Reply #16, 20 years, 4 months ago

Hi all

Putting this snippet inside a chunk made it break, I’m wondering it thats usual for snippets or is it just this one (i tried removing whitespace as outlined in http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1519.msg10192.html - but no luck

any guidance would be much appreciated

btw, the snippet does work for me when its not in a chunk... hmmm

cheers

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opengeek Reply #17, 20 years, 4 months ago

If you’re page is cacheable, then the full content of the chunk would be cached and the snippet would most likely only work if called with the non-cacheable snippet tags:

[!gtext!]

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0ad Reply #18, 20 years, 4 months ago

ahhhh

so thats what the difference between [[snippet]] and [!snippet!] is!

fixed! thanks a million!

0ad

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hgw Reply #19, 20 years, 4 months ago

gtext (thanks paladin!) is a charm and MODx is continuing to surprise me very positively ...

I managed to generate dynamic graphical text from a document TV with the following code in my template - may be it’s a motivation to use this great snippet for others as well (my MODx path is not root but /modx):

<img alt="[*longtitle*]" src="/modx[!gText?font=`frutige1.ttf`&fontsize=`18`&color=`#13c247`&bgcolor=`#000000`&text=`[*longtitle*]`!]" />

(BTW: had to strip all empty spaces between within the snippet call.)

cool

Question: Is this the best way to call my gText snippet oder could / should this even better be done with a chunk or an other method?

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hgw Reply #20, 20 years, 4 months ago

Having said above I just encountered a little problem ...

I’m getting this (see attachment) - very strange ? There aren’t so much spaces in the longtitle ...

The [*longtitle*] rendering in the alt-attribute (see post and code from my post before this) is ok:

alt="IZB Soft GmbH"

Any Ideas

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