You are correct - it needs to be an embedded font to render when rotated. Unfortunately, also, the rotation of the text is about the top left corner and the class does not correctly report its dimensions when rotated. I posted a RotableText class to the Flex 2 General Discussion forum a couple of months ago that provides an extension of the Text class which correctly reports its dimensions after rotation, and correctly positions the text when rotated.
Tim --- In [email protected], leds usop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually Tim, he already mentioned in a previous post > that more than just to add a circle, he wanted to add > a circle.. and rotate it to vertical. i have already > suggested adding the text child directly to the canvas > (main or child.. shouldnt really matter). However, i > think what makes the text not render is the rotate > action he is applying. I dunno, correct me if im > wrong.. but you cant rotate text and have it render > correctly like other visual stuff (basic shapes, etc) > without embedding the font am i right? > > --- Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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" > > <tspratt@> 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. > Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html >
