Yes, I have these sorted out, but it does not match my dynamic needs...

I will go with the bitmap trick.

Thanks a lot , Glen!!

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Pike
Sent: dinsdag 6 juli 2010 13:36
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to rotate dynamic textfield

Hi,

     I could not find old bookmark, but the link below shows similar idea:

     http://www.flashandmath.com/howtos/rotatetext3d/
     This is "proper" embedding.
     http://www.flashandmath.com/howtos/rotatetext/

     Glen


On 06/07/2010 12:23, Cor wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> I tried the embed in textfield on stage but that doesn't work for me when
> adding multiple textfield dynamically.
>
> Do you have some example code of the bitmap snaphot??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Pike
> Sent: dinsdag 6 juli 2010 13:18
> To: Flash Coders List
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to rotate dynamic textfield
>
> Hi,
>
> Your text field needs to have embedFonts set to true and you need the
> corresponding font characters either embedded in that text field, or
> another one used in the movie.  embedFonts property should be True if
> you set the embedding in the IDE.
>
> An alternate hack for rotating is to do a bitmap "snapshot" of the text
> field, then rotate the bitmap.
>
> HTH
>
> Glen
>
> On 06/07/2010 12:07, Cor wrote:
>    
>> Do you mean a textfield with embedded fonts or the particular
>>      
> instance(name)
>    
>> ?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of allandt
>> bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
>> Sent: dinsdag 6 juli 2010 13:03
>> To: Flash Coders List
>> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to rotate dynamic textfield
>>
>> to do any kind of rotation / alpha transforms on a textfield, you need to
>> have the fonts embedded in the textfield
>>
>> your text will disappear otherwise
>>
>> On 6 July 2010 11:16, Cor<[email protected]>   wrote:
>>
>>
>>      
>>> I don't need a textfield on stage to embed.
>>> I adjusted my Test.as:
>>>
>>> package {
>>>
>>>          import flash.display.*;
>>>          import flash.text.*;
>>>
>>>          [Embed(source="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Tahoma.ttf",
>>>
>>>        
>> fontFamily="myTahoma")]
>>
>>      
>>>          public class Test extends MovieClip {
>>>
>>>                  public function Test() {
>>>
>>>                          var fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
>>>                          fmt.font = "myTahoma";
>>>                          fmt.size=16;
>>>                          fmt.color=0x990000;
>>>
>>>                          var tf:TextField = new TextField();
>>>                          //tf.embedFonts=true; //DOES NOT WORK, MAKES
TEXT
>>> DISAPPEAR
>>>                          tf.defaultTextFormat=fmt;
>>>                          tf.multiline = true;
>>>                          tf.width = 200;
>>>                          tf.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
>>>                          tf.wordWrap = true;
>>>                          tf.x = 100;
>>>                          tf.y = 100;
>>>                          tf.htmlText = "Text to rotated<BR>Line two.";
>>>                          addChild(tf);
>>>                          //tf.rotation=300; //DOES NOT WORK, THIS IS THE
>>> PROBLEM FOR ME
>>>                   }
>>>          }
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David
>>> Hunter
>>> Sent: dinsdag 6 juli 2010 12:07
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to rotate dynamic textfield
>>>
>>>
>>> off the top of my head, i don't think you can rotate dynamic text with
>>>        
> web
>    
>>> fonts. i think you need to embed the fonts, otherwise the text does not
>>> render.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: [Flashcoders] How to rotate dynamic textfield
>>>> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:50:57 +0200
>>>> CC:
>>>>
>>>> Hi List,
>>>>
>>>> I want to rotate a dynamic textfield in Flash CS3 using AS3 in classes.
>>>> I want to do it all in code so nothing on the stage.
>>>> I tried different ways but it never shows.
>>>>
>>>> I have set up a test fla wich can be downloaded here:
>>>>
>>>> www.codobyte.com/textRotation.zip
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any help is appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Cor
>>>> [email protected]
>>>>
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