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I'm looking for suggestions.
Like in many games (diablo, wow, etc.) when the player mouse over an item, a box with a black fill will display the item attributes. That box grow automatically taller when the item has more magical properties.
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/715...agebitmapl.png
How would you do this mechanic with AS3 or CS4/CS5?
takes a while to get a reply :/
I'd probably store all item data in an array with each element representing a single property and then let's say you know each line needs 5 pixels, draw the box like:
graphics.drawRect(0,0,100,yourarray.length * 5)
Where 100 is whatever width you need. This of course only works if you don't need dynamic width and each property only occupies one line.
And how would you work with the textfields? Also there is a description textfield which can be between 1 and 4 lines.
put items into a container.
take the height of the container sprite and draw a rectangle behind it.