Really? When I try
<mx:Label x="100" y="100" text="Hello" rotation="90" blendMode="layer"/>
I don't see anything.
Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Amy
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 3:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Sideways text
--- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Gordon
Smith <gosm...@...> wrote:
>
> If you use an embedded font I think you can rotate Flex 3 text components.
>
> But if you want to use a device font, you would have to develop custom
> components that use FTE or TLF instead of TextField to render their text, and
> you'd have to require Flash Player 10. Looking at how Flex 4 implements its
> new text components would probably be useful if you're going to do this.
I think an easier way is to just set the blendMode on the text component to
"layer."
-Amy
