One small issue that bothered me while playing with GraphicsBuilder's text node is that it is hard to draw a paragraph, in other words multiple lines of text. Of course you could call text many times but you have to be careful with keeping a record of the previous row's height and font. Applying a paint to the whole paragraph was not possible. Not anymore! text node is now capable of understanding multiline text, just make sure to separate each line with the '\n' char (yes it must be that char, no '\r\n' nor '\f' nonsense), here is a sample



Here is the code
antialias on font(size: 24) rect( x: 10, y: 10, w: 20, h: 70, bc: 'none' ){ gradientPaint( x2: 0, y2: 50, c2: 'red', id: 'g' ) } text(t:"GraphicsBuilder supports\nmultiline text like this one\nain't it cool or what?", bc: 'none', x: 40, y: 10 ){ paint( g ) } rect( x: 325, y: 10, w: 20, h: 70, bc: 'none' ){ paint( g ) }
Notice how the gradient is applied to all rows of text in a seamless way. text node also supports a new property: spacing, that will let you tweak how much space should be taken into consideration between each row of text. The next feature for this node would be to allow setting the horizontal alignment (and perhaps vertical too), right now you could say that text is always left-aligned with respect to x.

Keep on Groovying!