Is this AS3? you can use TextField.getCharBoundaries() I used it in an experiment a while back here to pretty good effect: http://www.moonbootmedia.com/interactive/m/textcompare.html
--Matt On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Glen Pike <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > You should be able to get the width of each sprite with the single letter > in??? > > Maybe mask the stream area out. Start each letter at x - letterWidth, > increase the x after each interval, when the letter reaches x=0, create & > show the next one, add it to your array. > Loop through the array each timer increasing the x position of the > letters, removing them when they reach the other side??? > Something like that??/ > Glen > > ali drongo wrote: > >> Hi there, I'm animating some letters that are dynamically created in their >> own sprites across the screen as if they are being fired in a stream. >> Currently I am using a fixed width font so it's straight forward to find >> their final position. My problem is that I need to use a non fixed-width >> font and I don't know how to calculate the position of each letter. >> >> Any ideas very gratefully received! >> >> Thanks :) >> Ali >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> >> >> >> > > -- > > Glen Pike > 01326 218440 > www.glenpike.co.uk <http://www.glenpike.co.uk> > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
