cheers darren, just a shot in the dark... have you already thought about using a glowFilter with a huge strength-value??? was the first thing that came to my mind...
greetz! henrik Darren Cook wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
