RE: [Flashcoders] Dynamically Distort Text?

2006-10-24 Thread GregoryN
Hello Marc, This was discussed here about 2 or 3 month ago, and I've explored Nike's tool at that time. As far as I can judge, in Nike uniform builder they're NOT using scriptable arching at all. Instead, there's a set of pre-made examples with a lot of frames in each. Then just gotoAndStop is

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamically Distort Text?

2006-10-24 Thread slangeberg
Not in (solely) flash, as far as I know or have ever seen. We created a Java class that takes the parameters (font, text, style) and performs the distortions on actual letter outlines, using Font objects. This was set up as a webservice (coldfusion instantiates java object) that returns

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamically Distort Text?

2006-10-24 Thread Marc Hoffman
Thanks to Scott and Gregory for the replies. It's pretty much as I suspected -- no dynamic solution in Flash alone. -Marc At 09:05 AM 10/24/2006, you wrote: Not in (solely) flash, as far as I know or have ever seen. We created a Java class that takes the parameters (font, text, style) and

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamically Distort Text?

2006-10-24 Thread Seb L
There are ways to do it but it's tricky. Here's an example on my blog : http://www.sebleedelisle.com/?p=18 You need to convert the text to a bitmap first, then you can do perspective distortions using the triangles method described here : http://www.sebleedelisle.com/?page_id=7 We wrote our

[Flashcoders] Dynamically Distort Text?

2006-10-23 Thread Marc Hoffman
I need to dynamically distort user input text to fill a limited set of shapes. For example, the user might type in WINNERS and select a shape like the Arc d' Triomphe (flat-topped arch), and the tops of all the letters would be flat but the bottoms would be curved. This is more than just