Re: [flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object.

2008-04-18 Thread Daniel Freiman
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object. I think the original poster was looking for something like graphics.drawText(Hello, format); But there are (alas!) no APIs in the Graphics class that know how to render a text

Re: [flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object.

2008-04-17 Thread Stephen Downs
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:51 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object. I think the original poster was looking for something like graphics.drawText(Hello, format); But there are (alas

RE: [flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object.

2008-04-15 Thread Rick Winscot
, April 14, 2008 8:23 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object. Unfortunately, the answer is no. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Cooper Sent

RE: [flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object.

2008-04-15 Thread Gordon Smith
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Winscot Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:30 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object. There is a way to draw a string to an graphical control (i.e

RE: [flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object.

2008-04-15 Thread Rick Winscot
: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:51 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object. I think the original poster was looking for something like

RE: [flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object.

2008-04-14 Thread Gordon Smith
Unfortunately, the answer is no. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Cooper Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 3:50 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Writing text

[flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object.

2008-04-11 Thread Eric Cooper
Is there any way to write/draw text directly to a Graphics object? For that matter is there anyway to draw text (single line of static text) into a Canvas? I suspect that the answer is no, having searched and searched... but maybe there's some obscure utility class that I've overlooked.

Re: [flexcoders] Writing text directly to Graphics object.

2008-04-11 Thread Doug McCune
You can draw a TextField to a BitmapData object (using the draw() method) and then use graphics.beginBitmapFill and pass in that BitmapData (make sure to specify the right matrix for where to start the fill). But no, as far as I know there is not way to do it directly, I often use BitmapData as an