I've a client interested in doing text effects like this (with text being dynamic from some kind of database): http://dcook.org/letters_with_borders.png (*)
I.e. each letter has a border. I think I can do this by drawing each letter in say 72pt in one colour, then drawing the same letter on top in say 64pt. As I need to do this letter by letter I need to take care of kerning. I wondered if there already existed some open source library that already does this, before I reinvent the wheel. Or does the new Flash 10 text support do this out-of-the-box? (Similarly, I do drop shadows by drawing the text first in black, offset a few pixels, then the same text on top in the real colour; is there an easier way nowadays?) Darren *: For the curious, that is three Japanese characters, read as o-kono-mi, meaning your favourite (something), or (something done in) the way you like it. -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese-Arabic open source dictionary/semantic network) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://darrendev.blogspot.com/ (blog on php, flash, i18n, linux, ...) _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
