How to get all points of a text

@Dazzid_of wrote:

Hi Of,
I'm using getStringAsPoints to find the outline of a text. The method paths[i].getOutline(), gives me all points of the text outline. How can I have all points of the text? I mean inside the character as well?

Do I need to create a fbo to then draw the text as a texture, to create an image and scan it using getPixel? Or there is something in my code that can by changed to do the same idea?

string uWord = "testing";
ofRectangle r = ttf.getStringBoundingBox(uWord, 0, 0);
center = ofVec2f(floor(-r.x - r.width * 0.5f), floor(-r.y - r.height * 0.5f));
center.x += ofGetWidth() / 2;
center.y += ofGetHeight() / 2;

// get the string as paths
vector <ofTTFCharacter> paths = ttf.getStringAsPoints(uWord);
for(int i = 0; i < paths.size(); i++){
    // for every character break it out to polylines
    vector <ofPolyline> polylines = paths[i].getOutline();
    for(int j = 0; j < polylines.size(); j++){
        vector <ofVec2f> linePoints;
        ofPolyline spacePoly = polylines[j].getResampledBySpacing(1);
        // add all the points of the resampled polyline to the character vector
        for(int k = 0; k < spacePoly.size(); k++){
            linePoints.push_back(spacePoly[k]);
        }
        // add the vector of points to the main vector (which is indeed a vector of vectors)
        points.push_back(linePoints);
    }
}

for(int i = 0; i < points.size(); i++){
    vector <ofVec2f> charPoints = points[i];
    for(int j = 0; j < charPoints.size(); j++){
        coordinates.push_back(ofVec2f(charPoints[j].x+center.x, charPoints[j].y+center.y));
    }
}

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