DisplayPipeline "DrawMaskedText" METHOD REQUEST

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)
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Hi Devs,

I would very much like to see the addition of an accessible masked text draw method for the display pipeline.

Currently it involves jumping throught a few hoops to measure the text string to get pixel dimensions, inflating the resulting 2d rectangle to get some offset from the text, and overlaying the two to have a resulting masked text.

This is very useful for displaying real time data and HUDs without the problem of bad readibility of screen text when overlayed on the model space.

-GM

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Can you give a declaration of what this function would look like for your needs?

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It could be the following:

DrawText(self: DisplayPipeline, screenX: int, screenY: int, text: TextEntity)

Draws TextEntity in screen coordinates.

screenX: X coordinate (in pixels) of text insertion point (dependent on TextJustification set in TextEntity).
screenY: Y coordinate (in pixels) of text insertion point (dependent on TextJustification set in TextEntity).
text: TextEntity.

Masking would be set in the properties of the TextEntity (currently the Draw2dText and Draw3dText accept string inputs for the text parameter only).