Hey Flexcoders... got a question. I've got all transformations on non-embedded fonts integrated, but the rotate feature is tripping me up a bit.
The trick I want to use is as follows: 1. Class MyLabel (extends Sprite) contains one reference to MyTextField class - an extension of UITextField. It also contains one Bitmap. 2. When a transformation is applied (transform.matrix) to the MyLabel class, the transformation is captured and split into it's components - scale, then rotation/skew. It's easy to split up these components. 3. MyTextField gets scaled, a new bitmap is created at that size and rendered to the MyLabel as a rotated/skewed bitmap. Obviously, MyTextField is not a visible element in the MyLabel instance, just the bitmap. I put this technique out there just in case someone has done it before and has some working code snippets that they are willing to share. The biggest thing is to figure out how to overried a transform.matrix apply within any particular class. I would really prefer not extending the transform and matrix classes to propagate these changes. I know this is more of an AS3/Flash question, but I'm wondering if there is maybe an event that propagates down the chain can be captured when a transform is applied to a sprite or other display object? thanks for any tips! - jon
