open source ::: diplay text as gif fonts

[ziplockkitty]

Ok, another problem...
I have capital and lowercase letters which i would like to use.
It makes everything in capital lettering though... any ideas?

[ziplockkitty]

Nevermind, i use the toUpperCase() function to figure out if the letter was the same with the capitalized version of it and if it wasnt i added 26 frames.
Here is the full code im using.... the | marks where a new line starts

onClipEvent (load) {
	spot = 0;
	line = 0;
	name = "Testing | ok";
	letter_space = 13;
	for (i=0; i<name.length; i++) {
		if (name.substr(i, 1) != "|") {
			duplicateMovieClip(this.f, "f"+i, i);
			// this["f"+i]._x = this.f._x-((i+1)*letter_space);
			this["f"+i]._x = this.f._x+(spot*letter_space);
			this["f"+i]._y = this.f._y+(line*30);
			this["f"+i]._xscale = 200;
			this["f"+i]._yscale = 200;
			this["f"+i].gotoAndStop("|"+name.substr(i, 1));
			letter1 = name.substr(i, 1);
			letter2 = letter1.toUpperCase();
			trace (letter1 + "-" +letter2);
			if (letter1 != letter2) {
				this["f"+i].gotoAndStop(this["f"+i]._currentframe+26);
			}
			spot++;
		} else {
			spot = 0;
			line++;
		}
	}
}

I just need to check if the letter is a space or - or , because then it messes up... then i'll be done with this text thing... i think
Sorry, this is my 3rd post in a row....

[iopred]

if your trying to make it robust then do this:

ass = "abczABCZ";
letter = 0;
lwidth = 20;
function attachLetter(xpos,ypos,code){
	var temp = attachMovie("letter","letter_"+letter,letter);
	temp._x = xpos;
	temp._y = ypos;
	temp.gotoAndStop("frame_"+code)
	letter++;
}

for(var i = 0; i < ass.length;i++){
	attachLetter(i*lwidth,100,ass.charCodeAt(i))	
}

And here are the frames and what they should contain (warning warning)

frame_0: 
frame_1: 

frame_2: 
frame_3: 
frame_4: 
frame_5: 
frame_6: 
frame_7: 
frame_8: 
frame_9: 	
frame_10: 

frame_11: 
frame_12: 
frame_13: 

frame_14: 
frame_15: 
frame_16: 
frame_17: 
frame_18: 
frame_19: 
frame_20: 
frame_21: 
frame_22: 
frame_23: 
frame_24: 
frame_25: 
frame_26: 
frame_27: 
frame_28: 
frame_29: 
frame_30: 
frame_31: 
frame_32:  
frame_33: !
frame_34: "
frame_35: #
frame_36: $
frame_37: %
frame_38: &
frame_39: '
frame_40: (
frame_41: )
frame_42: *
frame_43: +
frame_44: ,
frame_45: -
frame_46: .
frame_47: /
frame_48: 0
frame_49: 1
frame_50: 2
frame_51: 3
frame_52: 4
frame_53: 5
frame_54: 6
frame_55: 7
frame_56: 8
frame_57: 9
frame_58: :
frame_59: ;
frame_60: <
frame_61: =
frame_62: >
frame_63: ?
frame_64: @
frame_65: A
frame_66: B
frame_67: C
frame_68: D
frame_69: E
frame_70: F
frame_71: G
frame_72: H
frame_73: I
frame_74: J
frame_75: K
frame_76: L
frame_77: M
frame_78: N
frame_79: O
frame_80: P
frame_81: Q
frame_82: R
frame_83: S
frame_84: T
frame_85: U
frame_86: V
frame_87: W
frame_88: X
frame_89: Y
frame_90: Z
frame_91: [
frame_92: \
frame_93: ]
frame_94: ^
frame_95: _
frame_96: `
frame_97: a
frame_98: b
frame_99: c
frame_100: d
frame_101: e
frame_102: f
frame_103: g
frame_104: h
frame_105: i
frame_106: j
frame_107: k
frame_108: l
frame_109: m
frame_110: n
frame_111: o
frame_112: p
frame_113: q
frame_114: r
frame_115: s
frame_116: t
frame_117: u
frame_118: v
frame_119: w
frame_120: x
frame_121: y
frame_122: z
frame_123: {
frame_124: |
frame_125: }
frame_126: ~
frame_127: 
frame_128: ?
frame_129: �
frame_130: ?
frame_131: ?
frame_132: ?
frame_133: ?
frame_134: ?
frame_135: ?
frame_136: ?
frame_137: ?
frame_138: ?
frame_139: ?
frame_140: ?
frame_141: �
frame_142: ?
frame_143: �
frame_144: �
frame_145: ?
frame_146: ?
frame_147: ?
frame_148: ?
frame_149: ?
frame_150: ?
frame_151: ?
frame_152: ?
frame_153: ?
frame_154: ?
frame_155: ?
frame_156: ?
frame_157: �
frame_158: ?
frame_159: ?
frame_160: _
frame_161: ¡
frame_162: ¢
frame_163: £
frame_164: ¤
frame_165: ¥
frame_166: ¦
frame_167: §
frame_168: ¨
frame_169: ©
frame_170: ª
frame_171: «
frame_172: ¬
frame_173: _
frame_174: ®
frame_175: ¯
frame_176: °
frame_177: ±
frame_178: ²
frame_179: ³
frame_180: ´
frame_181: µ
frame_182: ¶
frame_183: ·
frame_184: ¸
frame_185: ¹
frame_186: º
frame_187: »
frame_188: ¼
frame_189: ½
frame_190: ¾
frame_191: ¿
frame_192: À
frame_193: �
frame_194: Â
frame_195: Ã
frame_196: Ä
frame_197: Ã…
frame_198: Æ
frame_199: Ç
frame_200: È
frame_201: É
frame_202: Ê
frame_203: Ë
frame_204: Ì
frame_205: �
frame_206: ÃŽ
frame_207: �
frame_208: �
frame_209: Ñ
frame_210: Ã’
frame_211: Ó
frame_212: Ô
frame_213: Õ
frame_214: Ö
frame_215: ×
frame_216: Ø
frame_217: Ù
frame_218: Ú
frame_219: Û
frame_220: Ü
frame_221: �
frame_222: Þ
frame_223: ß
frame_224: Ã*
frame_225: á
frame_226: â
frame_227: ã
frame_228: ä
frame_229: å
frame_230: æ
frame_231: ç
frame_232: è
frame_233: é
frame_234: ê
frame_235: ë
frame_236: ì
frame_237: Ã*
frame_238: î
frame_239: ï
frame_240: ð
frame_241: ñ
frame_242: ò
frame_243: ó
frame_244: ô
frame_245: õ
frame_246: ö
frame_247: ÷
frame_248: ø
frame_249: ù
frame_250: ú
frame_251: û
frame_252: ü
frame_253: ý
frame_254: þ
frame_255: ÿ

EDIT> The reason this is robust is it refers to the letters from their ASCII values, therefore you can use all punctuation and you dont have to code special cases.

[d3s_inc]

Okay... I don't know if this will help you... but I decided to take this idea and make something, well make it more flexible and complex..

SO, I wrote some code that can be included in any game or .fla and allows you to easily create text using a GIF MC palatte.

HOW TO USE:
I don't have much documentation or commenting yet.
Basicaly, all you need to know is, this code will support multiple fonts. What you have to do is create an MC with your font in it... I only have it set up for letters and spaces right now, altough the code can be made to handle any character.

ie. a MC with a,b,c,d,e,...etc in frames 1-26, then A,B,C,D...etc in frame 27-whatever (lol), then a space in the next frame.

Then, set up the order of your character is GIF_FONTS.order (thus, this will be the order for ALL your fonts).

ie. GIF_FONTS.order["lowerCase","space"];
then define the ascii values for the characters...
ie. GIF_FONTS.lowerCase = {MAX:

well.. I will continue later SORRY... really kinda tired.. but believe you me... it IS flexible and I think would be quite nice.. see... once your fonts are set up.. all you have to do is use a pre build Class I made and just give it text then say myInst.drawText() and boom... it shows it....

-Phil

[iopred]

Just adding on to your code d3s_inc...

Its pretty much yours, but removing the sluggish code to check if fonts are uppercase/lowercase, and not worrying about them, instead sending the MC to the ASCII frame for that letter.

[d3s_inc]

okay... FINE! j/k
right.. suppose that works, but the reason I had that other code was: I don't feel like all those dang blanks..... in the font MC i mean... but okay okay... if you like blanks I suppose I can live with it


was it really that slow ?.....

[iopred]

Nah I was overacting when I said "sluggish".

Yours was an excellent implementation of the problem.

However I noticed that when you use LARGE chunks of text, you dont want to have flash hanging up. By saving say.. 10 lines of code per letter (not having to go thru your char function) over time that is a large saving, one which I prefer over a large slab of blanks in the font MC.

[d3s_inc]

suppose your right... just took... so ... long to get that other code all sorted out... and flexible.... ..... .......

[iopred]

Sorry

[d3s_inc]

eh! oh well. Besides this method makes editing of the font a lot easier... it should still support multiple fonts, its faster, and all you give up is not having to put spaces... Well. I added 2 functions to the class:

textLength < gives you the length in Pixels of the text
deletText() < delets the text from display . A must for animation and updating text =)
update() < which updates things in the class. right now it only updates the textLength..


And I made a bit of text animation to prove that this script is good!

[d3s_inc]

OMG! I hate this forum script. HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT! I wrote all this stuff out on the new version of the code I wrote, and now... I attached the .fla that was a little too big and boom.. its all gone!

Well, the major points: you can have fonts where each letter is different width... takes a bit of code to customize alll those letters but works... I have an example in the .fla of a font where certain letters a smaller, such as the I and . and letters a bigger such as W and M.

Also, there are TYPES. All upper case, all lower case, normal. Thus it makes sure you text is iehter all upper case, all lower case or just normal.

I will upload .fla to my website...

http://www.d3s.net/phil/GIF_FONTS.fla