From 7fee8cf26a07a41910ca730a4c22b61ddbc1e372 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuele Bassi Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:44:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] cookbook: Add a short introduction for the Text chapter --- doc/cookbook/text.xml | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/cookbook/text.xml b/doc/cookbook/text.xml index 4a0621d21..d10551e75 100644 --- a/doc/cookbook/text.xml +++ b/doc/cookbook/text.xml @@ -6,14 +6,24 @@ Text - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man - contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. + Alan Perlis + A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the + picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with + pictures.
Introduction + User interfaces can rely on textures to represent actions, but there + are cases where you need to convey an idea using words. + + Clutter provides an actor that allows displaying and editing + arbitrary text, called ClutterText. A ClutterText + actor can be positioned like any other actor; its preferred size is + determined by its contents, as well as the font family and size used to + render those contents. +