JUCE 8 gradient text

General JUCE discussion
1

Hi

If JUCE 7 to draw gradient text, you could do something like the following, but in JUCE 8 this isn’t working. Is there another approach?

void MenuBar::paint(Graphics& g) {
    g.fillAll(Colours::grey);
    auto gradient = juce::ColourGradient::horizontal(c1, 0, c2, w);
    g.setGradientFill(gradient);
    g.drawText(name, 0, 0, w, h, Justification::left);
}

thanks
peter

2

Ok not to worry, I switched to use a GlyphArrangement that works and is probably the favoured method?

e.g.

void MenuBar::paint(Graphics& g) {
    glyphs.addFittedText(font, name, 0, 0, w, h, Justification::left, 2, 1.0f);
    Path p;
    glyphs.createPath(p);
    auto gradient = juce::ColourGradient::horizontal(c1, 0, c2, w);
    g.setGradientFill(gradient);
    g.fillPath(p, getTransform());
}
JUCE Gradient and Text Filling
3

Thanks for reporting this issue. The original example you posted should be fixed by this patch, which is now available on the develop branch.