Comments on: Scaling dynamic text in AS3

By: scott

scott — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:24:32 +0000

Instead of turning your text into a bitmap (which will still look terrible when scaled to a larger size) you could have just turned the anti-alias from readability to animation. This solves this problem in most cases.

By: Erwan

Erwan — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:53:18 +0000

Thanks a lot!! Works great…

By: Robbieuitos

Robbieuitos — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:10:25 +0000

Thanks! I’ve asked our friend Google about this for 5 hours. So thanks a lot!

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:25:50 +0000

russdogg: I tried embedding the font but that didn't seem to solve anything. Let me know if you get it working though, I'd like to know how you did it. Lee: I use SWFobject to embed all of my Flash thingies, and that's what overcomes that little click-to-activate "feature" some browsers use.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:57:23 +0000

Hello,

This is not about textfields. It is about the cool little Flash navigation you have. How to did you get it to respond without having to be clicked on first? Anytime I embed a Flash file in a web page, you have to click on it before you can use it.

thanks,
lee

By: russdogg

russdogg — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:58:58 +0000

I believe embedding the fonts fixed this for me, when I had this issue before. Have to go look through some code to be sure.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:46:15 +0000

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thanks so much!

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:34:52 +0000

John: Aye. I’ve slapped a TextFormat and even some HTML onto the text object before it was rendered into a bitmap. If it helps, I’ll share my BitmapText class — feed it (width, height[, multiline:Boolean, format:TextFormat, avgPointSize:int, padding:int]), use addText(string) then render() will return a Bitmap object with everything. Looks complicated in retrospect, but it saved me some time anyway :shrug:

There’s more detailed instructions in the class itself, and don’t forget to put it under com.coldconstructs.graphics

By: John S.

John S. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:24:46 +0000

Out of curiosity, were you able to apply any styling to the BitmapData before applying it to the Bitmap? I’m not successful doing so just yet, and having plain ol’ bitmap fonts isn’t desirable, aesthetically.

By: John S.

John S. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:02:53 +0000

Epic. I JUST ran into this problem tonight. Thank you for sharing, you’ve saved me countless hours of frustration!