interactive text on a path

This is going to be my first post to this newsgroup...and it's going to be a
doozy...

I need to be able to type text in a field and have that text show up on
another part. Where the text shows up it will be either straight across,
inclined, arced, or arched. Then I will have to be able to restyle the text
on the fly - i.e. go between the different shapings of the text without
pause or back track so that they text i've typed gets automatically
reshaped. Is this making sense?

Obviously there will be questions so fire away...

Tom

[knut einar skjær]

<x@x.com> wrote:

> This is going to be my first post to this newsgroup...and it's going to be a
> doozy...
>
> I need to be able to type text in a field and have that text show up on
> another part. Where the text shows up it will be either straight across,
> inclined, arced, or arched. Then I will have to be able to restyle the text
> on the fly - i.e. go between the different shapings of the text without
> pause or back track so that they text i've typed gets automatically
> reshaped. Is this making sense?
>
> Obviously there will be questions so fire away...

What do you mean by "reshaped"? I don't think you can create dynamic
textfields like you describe them. You'll have to make each letter a
seperate mc -- or rather make seperate mc's that refers to the the
letters you're typing. Then you'll have to controll them (the mc's
representing the letters) with actionscript. As far as I know, you cant
even rotate a dynamic textfield without loosing the text. This is
however some guessing from my side -- I might be wrong about this ...

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Knut Einar Skjær
[url]www.rsd.no[/url]

Flashkit.com forum said there might be component for this sort of thing.
Where would I look for such a component if it existed?

Tom


"knut einar skjær" <knut-einar@#ikkedette#rsd.no> wrote in message
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> <x@x.com> wrote:
>

> > This is going to be my first post to this newsgroup...and it's going to

be a

> > doozy...
> >
> > I need to be able to type text in a field and have that text show up on
> > another part. Where the text shows up it will be either straight across,
> > inclined, arced, or arched. Then I will have to be able to restyle the

text

> > on the fly - i.e. go between the different shapings of the text without
> > pause or back track so that they text i've typed gets automatically
> > reshaped. Is this making sense?
> >
> > Obviously there will be questions so fire away...

>
> What do you mean by "reshaped"? I don't think you can create dynamic
> textfields like you describe them. You'll have to make each letter a
> seperate mc -- or rather make seperate mc's that refers to the the
> letters you're typing. Then you'll have to controll them (the mc's
> representing the letters) with actionscript. As far as I know, you cant
> even rotate a dynamic textfield without loosing the text. This is
> however some guessing from my side -- I might be wrong about this ...
>
> --
> Knut Einar Skjær
> [url]www.rsd.no[/url]

[knut einar skjær]

<Tom> wrote:

> Flashkit.com forum said there might be component for this sort of thing.
> Where would I look for such a component if it existed?

Try here:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?promoid=home_short_[/url]
exchange_052804

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Knut Einar Skjær
[url]www.rsd.no[/url]

[Ryan Yacyshyn]

Have you seen this?

[url]http://www.peterjoel.com/Samples/[/url]

Ryan

<x@x.com> wrote in message news:ckhjog$4v3$1@news.xmission.com...

> This is going to be my first post to this newsgroup...and it's going to be
> a
> doozy...
>
> I need to be able to type text in a field and have that text show up on
> another part. Where the text shows up it will be either straight across,
> inclined, arced, or arched. Then I will have to be able to restyle the
> text
> on the fly - i.e. go between the different shapings of the text without
> pause or back track so that they text i've typed gets automatically
> reshaped. Is this making sense?
>
> Obviously there will be questions so fire away...
>
> Tom
>
>

[Ryan Yacyshyn]

sorry, go to text effects on the left-hand side..


"Ryan Yacyshyn" <ryan@iksonline.com> wrote in message
news:416fba61$1@news.starhub.net.sg...

> Have you seen this?
>
> [url]http://www.peterjoel.com/Samples/[/url]
>
> Ryan
>
> <x@x.com> wrote in message news:ckhjog$4v3$1@news.xmission.com...

>> This is going to be my first post to this newsgroup...and it's going to
>> be a
>> doozy...
>>
>> I need to be able to type text in a field and have that text show up on
>> another part. Where the text shows up it will be either straight across,
>> inclined, arced, or arched. Then I will have to be able to restyle the
>> text
>> on the fly - i.e. go between the different shapings of the text without
>> pause or back track so that they text i've typed gets automatically
>> reshaped. Is this making sense?
>>
>> Obviously there will be questions so fire away...
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>

>
>

[knut einar skjær]

Ryan Yacyshyn <ryan@iksonline.com> wrote:

> sorry, go to text effects on the left-hand side..

It seems to do exactly what I suggested for Tom. Treat every character
as its own MC and manipulate it in that way. So it is possible :)

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Knut Einar Skjær
[url]www.rsd.no[/url]