Unfortunately, there are no plans to add a text-drawing API like Graphics.drawText() in Flash Player 10. Text will continue to be renderable only by a special type of DisplayObject.
Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Cooper Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:51 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Writing text directly to Graphics object. Yes, this is what I was hoping for. And even though it is not now available, I wonder, Gordon, if you are at liberty to tell us about the future? Is Graphics.drawText() be something that might get added? -eric --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 string. Only TextField knows how to do that. > > > > Gordon Smith > > Adobe Flex SDK Team >
