Text Effects in Flash AS 2.0
Project ID: 1265685615
Project Details
  • Status:
    Closed (Cancelled)
  • Posted:
    2/8/2010 at 22:20 EST
  • Cancelled:
    2/23/2010 at 2:04 EST
  • Project Creator:
  • Budget:
    $50-150
  • Description:
    "Customink.com text effects in Flash AS 2.0"

    We require a Flash AS 2.0 expert to do some text effects on dynamic text fields.
    Go to http://www.customink.com/lab/#loc-singles

    add a text

    Select it and look for Shape Text features, we require some of the text effects namely
    Curve Up Text
    Curve Down Text
    Arch Up Text
    Arch Down Text
    Bridge Text
    Valley Text

    Plus we need the option to outline the text and also the color change option for outline text.

    You will be providing us with the source code in AS2.0 and my developer will take over the codes and embed it in our application, so you need to guide him as well if he needs assistance.

    Here are some technical details on how you will have to code the features.

    You have dynamic movieclips on stage (Array of movieclip),
    inside each dynamic movieclip you have one dynamic text field

    Now you will place a dropdown(or 7 buttons for the effects),
    when a user clicks/selects the effect, the dynamic textfield(inside that same dynamic movieclip) will change its shape according to the selected effect.

    Note: Once the user selects any effect, you can replace the dynamic textfield(remove) and make many dynamic textfields according to effect but all those newly created dynamic textfields must reside inside the parent movieclip.

    Here is any example of the code


    function filterType1(Type)
    {
    var TargetText:MovieClip=SelectedObj.maincont_mc.maincont_mc2.txtfield; //The current textfield
    var Direction = 1;
    var Count:Number = 0;
    var XYInc = 10;
    var YInc = 0;

    var OldFormat:TextFormat=SelectedObj.maincont_mc.maincont_mc2.txtfield.getTextFormat(); //Get the current format of the textfield like font, color etc
    var Newformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

    var TargetColor:Color = new Color(TargetText);
    SetColor=TargetColor.getRGB();
    var tmpText=TargetText.text;
    var half:Number = Math.round((tmpText.length)/Type);
    var Mc1:MovieClip=SelectedObj.maincont_mc; //This is the main Movieclip
    Mc1.createEmptyMovieClip("Mc2", _root.getNextHighestDepth());// This is inside movieclip array that will hold multiple new generated dynamic textfields

    var SetWidth:Number=_root.ItemSelected._width;
    var SetHeight:Number=_root.ItemSelected._height;

    for (i=0; i<tmpText.length; i++) {

    Mc1.Mc2.createTextField("MyText"+i, i+1,i*XYInc, 0, 15, 20);

    Newformat.font =OldFormat.font;
    Newformat.align =OldFormat.align;
    Mc1.Mc2["MyText"+i].type = "dynamic";
    Mc1.Mc2["MyText"+i].embedFonts = true;
    Mc1.Mc2["MyText"+i].text = tmpText.charAt(i);
    Mc1.Mc2["MyText"+i].setTextFormat(Newformat);
    Mc1.Mc2["MyText"+i].textColor=SetColor;

    var mc12:MovieClip = Mc1.Mc2["MyText"+i];

    var IntWidth:Number = mc12._width;
    var IntHeight:Number = mc12._height;
    var trans:Transform = new Transform(mc12);
    var scaleMatrix:Matrix = new Matrix();



    Mc1.Mc2["MyText"+i]._y = YInc*5;
    Count = Count+1;
    YInc = YInc+Direction;
    SkewType = Direction*(.5);
    if (YInc == half) {
    Direction = -1;
    }
    if (YInc == 0) {
    Direction = 1;
    }


    scaleMatrix.b = SkewType;
    scaleMatrix.c = 0;
    scaleMatrix.translate(mc12._x, mc12._y);
    trans.matrix = scaleMatrix;
    //trace("TextField["+i+"]="+Mc1.Mc2["MyText"+i].text);
    }
    Mc1._width=SetWidth;
    Mc1._height=SetHeight*2;
    Mc1.Mc2._x=-(Mc1.Mc2._width/2);
    Mc1.Mc2._y=-(Mc1.Mc2._height/2);

    //Mc1._visible=true;
    TargetText._visible=false;
    }

    //Sample calling of the function
    filterType1(2);

    You don't need to follow the above mentioned codes but I suggest this will do most of the job for you.
    You can either use a single function or you can create multiple for the effects.

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