Flash MX - Dynamic Text with color stroke

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January 28th, 2004, 11:49 AM

vande29

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Flash MX - Dynamic Text with color stroke

Using Flash MX, I am looking for an actionscript / flash option that will let me set the text color and then set a second color for a text stroke. Nike has done it on there site with what they call their uniform builder URL You can view there text by selecting the "Test Drive" option. I am trying to mimic how they do their 2 color text but am not having much luck. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do it??? Here is an example of what I am trying to do URL

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January 28th, 2004, 02:49 PM

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well i suppose you could make a textbox with size 20 text of lets say "20" and then a text box of size 10 and center it over the text box below, and use desired colors

January 28th, 2004, 03:22 PM

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RE:ZATRiX

I have tried that and it doesn't look that great. Thanks for the thought though.

January 28th, 2004, 04:09 PM

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Hi, I've done that before. You can use the setTextFormat function to do that.

Code:

myTextFormat = new TextFormat();
myTextFormat.bold = true;
myTextFormat2 = new Textformat();
myTextFormat2.bold = false;

myTextField.text = "Oh la la...";

beginIndex = 0;
endIndex = 2;

//Set the default text format up
myTextField.setTextFormat(myTextFormat2);
//Now change the first few characters to be bold
myTextField.setTextFormat (beginIndex, endIndex, myTextFormat );

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January 28th, 2004, 04:40 PM

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That's cool however I don't think it tells me how to change the color of the outline. Here is where you can see what I am trying to do URL

January 28th, 2004, 05:08 PM

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Hi, I'm guessing they manually drew each number on the shirt. I skimmed through so I didnt see if you can change the text on the shirt image. I did see the bit to do with coloring. I think they just drew each image as a seperate movie and then use the color box to change the color of that sub movie...just a guess though.

You might be able to do a trick and have a larger version of the text behing the smaller one. That might work ok with some fonts, doesnt with all...why not just pick a certain text to use in the example and then draw some fonts to use.

January 28th, 2004, 05:53 PM

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The text is a dynamic text box that is a movie playing over another movie (small text over large text). With all the fonts I want to use, it doesn't always look so great. Nike's looks awesome and I would love to know how they did it to look so good. However, I can't find anything besides what I currently have to give the 2 color effect. Thanks for the thoughts though.

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