I work at a firm and one of the things we’d like to do is do some basic text f/x – fading, moving individual letters in on a swirl, etc. TweenMax seems ideal to do this (particularly the .allTo capability). In fact we’ve got a project where it’s all being done the timeline!
Is there any way in AS3 to take input text (which can be in the form of an existing static textfield, or added dynamically to a dynamic textfield), break it up into individual movieclips or sprites and then tween those separately – while keeping the text arrangement on screen (spacing, line breaks, etc)? At present we have to go in by hand, and use the IDE “break” command to break the text strings into individual letters, and then, by hand, turn each of those into movie clips. Then we can tween them. Since the text changes often, you can imagine how time-consuming this is (it’s for banners – many, many banners).
One could of course rather easily take text in AS3 and turn each letter into a movie clip – but how would one be sure of spacing, kerning, line breaks, etc, between letters?
Thanks for any help!
Robert
