sakri rosenstrom blog

One upping myself here… happens everyday.

I overcame the font size limitation of my previous attempt at the ““Giant Letter Creator”” by focusing on the bitmap image, not the text field. So now, I create the desired text, in the desired font at size 12. Then I grab a BitmapData of it using matrix to scale it, and base the “comment text” rendering on this.

The result is much better… This is total overkill ofcourse, but you know, if you wanna surprise your friends when they update their cvs

Huge commenting text generator

This version even has buttons to generate commenting code!!! (// and /* */), and 5 lines of CSS!!!! DAMN LIFE IS GOOD!!!

And then, There are still a few issues…

Naturally the bitmapdata size limitation in flashplayer… I solved that with, what else, and Alert.show()

THen, for monospace fonts this works great, however, for script fonts etc. the spacing of characters can overlap from time to time, meaning the “big character” sometimes has the wrong “small character” (duh, sounds really scientific, here’s an image):

Huge commenting text generator

Again, the code is still quick and dirty, right click to view source or click here

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