You should be able to do something like this: var myText:Text = new Text(); myText.text = "Hello World"; myText.x = 220; myText.y = 140; mainCanvas.addChild(myText);
If you're just wanting to draw a shape, you should use Sprite rather than Canvas. Canvas is a container and is intended to layout other UIComponents - more than is needed just to draw a circle. Tim --- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You definitely can do that. > > > > addChild() is the method to use. > > > > I can't guess at what you are doing wrong without seeing what you are > doing. > > > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Guy Morton > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 8:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Dynamically creating a text object > > > > Hello. I'm stumped. > > > > I'm creating some circles in AS and putting them on a Canvas that's > declared in my MXML file like so > > > > var childCanvas:Canvas = new Canvas(); > > childCanvas.graphics.lineStyle(1, 0x333333, 1); > > childCanvas.graphics.beginFill(0xCCCCCC,0.6); > > childCanvas.graphics.drawCircle(200,150,7); > > childCanvas.graphics.endFill(); > > childCanvas.id = "myCircle"; > > childCanvas.toolTip = "I'm a circle"; > > > > mainCanvas.addChild(childCanvas); > > > > This all works fine. However, I want to add some text next to the circle > (with AS) and I can't see how to do it. I've tried many ways and nothing > worked. It seems I can't add an instance of a text object as a child to > the canvas in the same way that I can a shape. How should I be doing > this? > > > > Guy >
