[v7] info.waterlijn classes

I decided to mention it in this thread when I create a class.

The zip file containing my classes can be found here
http://www.waterlijn.info/as3classes/classes.zip

The docs for my classes can be found here
http://www.waterlijn.info/as3docs/

The KM .fun examples here
http://www.waterlijn.info/as3examples/

The first class I created is a TextShape class to put text inside a custom container. The text is converted into a bitmap so some normal text options are not available.

It works like this ...

Code:

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import info.waterlijn.display.*;
import flash.text.*;

var ts:TextShape = new TextShape();
addChild(ts);

var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat('_sans', 12);
tf.align = TextFormatAlign.JUSTIFY;

ts.defaultTextFormat = tf;
ts.text = 'This is a text that will be placed inside the defined containers.';

ts.addContainer(TextShape.MULTI_POINT, [0, 0], [420, 0], [560, 70, 500, 140], [500, 210, 420, 280], [0, 280], [140, 210, 80, 140], [80, 70, 0, 0]);
ts.addContainer(TextShape.RECTANGLE, 80, 300, 450, 80);
ts.background = true;

ts.render();

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Here are two examples ...

http://www.waterlijn.info/as3example...eExample1.html
http://www.waterlijn.info/as3example...eExample2.html

You might consider clarifying the lines

TextShape.MULTI_POINT

and

TextShape.RECTANGLE

Did you look at the docs Bret ?
http://www.waterlijn.info/as3docs/in...addContainer()
I'm not sure how to explain it better.

Those constants are exposed in the class (see class file as always).

If type sent in via the constructor is:
TextShape.RECTANGLE or TextShape.ELLIPSE it expects four arguments which are then used with the graphics property (TextShape extends Sprite and therefore has a graphics property that is an instance of the flash.display.Graphics class) to draw either an ellipse or rectangle :

sContainers.graphics.beginFill(numContainers);
sContainers.graphics[type == 0 ? 'drawRect' : 'drawEllipse'](args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3]);
sContainers.graphics.endFill();

If TextShape.MULTI_POINT, it expects argument arrays (either two integers or four per ) and depending on the argument length (2 or 4) it either draws a line or a curve respectively (again...using the graphics property) and assuming you've worked out the points ahead of time the last point would be the starting point thereby closing the container.

Wilbert, please feel free to correct me as it is after all your creation :)

Doh, missed it... Sorry...

I understood it, but was mostly concerned with other users not understanding it. Thanks for the well documented class Wilbert.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by w.brants

Did you look at the docs Bret ?

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I didn't know he'd been ill!:)