You're a star. Thanks a million!
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Allison
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You could try playing around with the GlowFilter...
>
> <mx:Label text="Behold a border!" color="white" fontSize="36"
> filters="{[new GlowFilter(0x000000,1,2,2,3,1)]}"/>
>
>
> On 21 Sep 2007, at 12:19, beecee1977 wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to overlay text so that it can be read regardless of the
> > background colour (without putting a background behind the text
> > itself). So basically I want the text to have a border around each
> > character with a different colour - white with black surround for
> > example.
> >
> > Any ideas how I'd approach this? Will it require a particular
font or
> > can I handle it from within Flex?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Bill
>
