You could try playing around with the GlowFilter...
<mx:Label text="Behold a border!" color="white" fontSize="36"
filters="{[new GlowFilter(0x000000,1,2,2,3,1)]}"/>
On 21 Sep 2007, at 12:19, beecee1977 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to overlay text so that it can be read regardless of the
> background colour (without putting a background behind the text
> itself). So basically I want the text to have a border around each
> character with a different colour - white with black surround for
> example.
>
> Any ideas how I'd approach this? Will it require a particular font or
> can I handle it from within Flex?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Bill
