Ming the Tutorial
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First, load a font:
where filename is an fdb file. (Yes, another ad hoc file format- you create fdb files from swt flash template files with Ming's makefdb utility.) The SWFFont object provides some font metric information for you:$f = new SWFFont(filename);Each method yields the demanded metric as a number, scaled to a font height of 1024. Unless you're displaying your text at a height of 1024, you'll need to multiply the returned number by height/1024.$f->getAscent(); $f->getDescent(); $f->getLeading(); $f->getWidth(string);Your average text-fu looks like:
You add an SWFText to your movie with the SWFMovie add method and animate with the returned handle, just like with shapes.$t = new SWFText(); $t->setFont($f); $t->setHeight(240); $t->setColor(0xff, 0, 0); $t->moveTo(10,250); $t->addString("no, please! not my toes!");Macromedia(r) and Flash(tm) are trademarks or registered trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.
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