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Add outline to the street names text #25

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meirtsvi opened this issue Oct 18, 2011 · 1 comment

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meirtsvi commented Oct 18, 2011

In all other platforms of Waze the text of the street names is surrounded by black outline so the text will be more clear.
I couldn't find font settings for that in SL but we can try using shadow effect to mimick the effect:
http://pagebrooks.com/archive/2009/03/30/easy-drop-shadows-on-text-in-silverlight-3.aspx
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1901835/silverlight-white-text-with-black-border

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meirtsvi commented Dec 31, 2011

Now that we are in XNA - use this technique to easily achieve the desired results:
http://erikskoglund.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/super-simple-text-outlining-in-xna/

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