sakri rosenstrom blog

So I created an as3 3d engine which pretty much pwns and humiliates papervision3d…

…then I woke up from my fantasy and wept.

John posted a “Giant Letter Creator” on his blog. The idea is nifty, but what caught my attention was that I could use my ‘trick’ from the Dazzling Bat Man Text Effect to, (and this is probably the only time in my life I can say this) ONE UP JOHN GRDEN

I know, pathetic, but I’m a dork like that

Anyway, what I figured was I could create the desired text in a big font, take a snapshot of it using bitmapdata, then run through the relevant pixels in the image to generate “huge commenting text” from any font and any character.

Now, I only had a good hour to spare, this version has shortcomings, but here it is (proof of concept style):
Huge commenting text generator

The code is quick and dirty, but there really isn’t much of it Either right click to view source or click here

What is truly craptacular is that in (flex only?) flash the size of a non embedded font has a maximum of 130 or something, bigger than that and nothing happens. I suppose I could fix this by scaling the snapshot of the text field… Maybe next week…

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