Background color

[MarcAntoine-Arnaud]

Do you have any started work on background color support ?
It can be great to have in on Text and Section.

Do you have any advice to start to implement it ?

Thanks,
Marc-Antoine

[alexheretic]

I think rendering not-text is generally out of scope for this lib, though it should provide the all glyph-info you need to render backgrounds & text selection. For example GlyphBrush::glyphs returns info on the position of each rendered glyph on the screen so could be used to calculate rect coords for a selection / background.

GlyphBrush::glyph_bounds may be enough info on it's own to render a rect background for tooltips etc.

[MarcAntoine-Arnaud]

Hello @alexheretic
Thank you for pointing me a great feedback.
Do you think it can be also possible to retrieve the position of a Text and not only a Section ?
Our requirement is also to underline word(s) in a section, not only a background of a Section.

Thank you for your advices.
Marc-Antoine

[alexheretic]

GlyphBrush::glyphs returns the position of every glyph along with it's section & str-byte indexes & font_id.

So if you wanted to underline str byte-index 4 to 14 you can lookup all the glyph positions related this way (and perhaps use the font to provide vertical metrics).

[MarcAntoine-Arnaud]

Thank you for details. I will look to implement that.