Thanks for all of your responses guys,I ended up using getCharBoundaries and
it works a treat.
FYI I created a text field at the position I wanted the letters to finally
go then stored the rectangle object for each char in an array and then
cycled through the array as Glen suggested.
Only thing is, when I use a multiline textfield my function will only gather
the char boundaries for the first line:
If anyone can suggest why it would be a help.
Cheers!
Ali
public static function letterPosAr(t:TextField):Array
{
trace("letterPosAr");
var retA:Array = new Array();
for (var i:int = 0; i < t.text.length; i++){
var rect:Rectangle = t.getCharBoundaries(i);
trace("---index"+i+" char:"+t.text.substr(i, 1)+" x:"+rect.x+"
y:"+rect.y+" w:"+rect.width);
retA[i] = rect;
}
return retA;
}
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Matt Gitchell <m...@moonbootmedia.com>wrote:
> the AS2 one is a cool idea!
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Hans Wichman <
> j.c.wich...@objectpainters.com> wrote:
>
> > and for as2:
> > http://objectpainters.com/blog/2008/10/12/finding-character-positions/
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Matt Gitchell <m...@moonbootmedia.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > 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 <postmas...@glenpike.co.uk
> > > >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
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