RE: [Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript

2005-12-17 Thread Chris Gaelic
Martin Wood Sent: Sunday, 18 December 2005 12:49 a.m. To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript You have to embed the font to manipulate it in that way. martin Chris Gaelic wrote: > I can get it to work if I use a truetype font like Arial set up

Re: [Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript

2005-12-17 Thread Martin Wood
You have to embed the font to manipulate it in that way. martin Chris Gaelic wrote: I can get it to work if I use a truetype font like Arial set up as static text. The text then stretches inside the movie clip. However, if I change the text type to Dynamic - because I want to change it using Ac

RE: [Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript

2005-12-17 Thread Chris Gaelic
rs mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript Thanks Johan, but that only works if I break the text into its outline geometry and then instance it as a movie clip. Text within a movie clip stays the same size when the mc is scaled. Chris Chris Gaelic Netlist [EMAIL P

RE: [Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript

2005-12-17 Thread Johan Karlsson
g list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript Thanks Johan, but that only works if I break the text into its outline geometry and then instance it as a movie clip. Text within a movie clip stays the same size when the mc is scaled. Chris Chris Gaelic Netlist [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript

2005-12-17 Thread Chris Gaelic
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johan Karlsson Sent: Saturday, 17 December 2005 11:07 p.m. To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript The simplest solution I can think of is to put the textfield into a movieclip and then

RE: [Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript

2005-12-17 Thread Johan Karlsson
05 06:10 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript Hi, I'm working on a Flash-based label ordering application which requires entering dynamic text, typically just one word, and displaying it scaled to fill the available space on the label. Th

[Flashcoders] Scaling text using ActionScript

2005-12-16 Thread Chris Gaelic
Hi, I'm working on a Flash-based label ordering application which requires entering dynamic text, typically just one word, and displaying it scaled to fill the available space on the label. This require changing the aspect ratio of the text - expanding or compressing its width relative to its hei