Bigger text than 72pt

**LS05** · July 18th, 2010, 01:41 PM

Hi guys,
I've made this code:

Code:

var txt:TextField = new TextField();
var frmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
txt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
frmt.font = "Arial";
frmt.size = 800;
frmt.color = 0xFF00FF;
txt.defaultTextFormat = frmt;
txt.text = "TRY WITH THIS";

I've seen aroud the web flash websites with text bigger than the max flash dimension of 72 pt. How can i make that? I've tried with the code above but it seems that flash set the text size to 72....please help me!!!

**Shaedo** · July 18th, 2010, 02:17 PM

try htmlText ....

Code:

var t:TextField = new TextField()
t.textColor=0;
t.htmlText = '<FONT SIZE="72">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</FONT>';
t.height=t.textHeight;
t.width=t.textWidth;
addChild(t);

var u:TextField = new TextField()
u.textColor=1343456;
u.y=150;
u.htmlText = '<FONT SIZE="160">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</FONT>';
u.height=u.textHeight;
u.width=u.textWidth;
addChild(u);

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/F....html#htmlText

**LS05** · July 18th, 2010, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by Shaedo

try htmlText ....

Code:

var t:TextField = new TextField()
t.textColor=0;
t.htmlText = '<FONT SIZE="72">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</FONT>';
t.height=t.textHeight;
t.width=t.textWidth;
addChild(t);

var u:TextField = new TextField()
u.textColor=1343456;
u.y=150;
u.htmlText = '<FONT SIZE="160">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</FONT>';
u.height=u.textHeight;
u.width=u.textWidth;
addChild(u);

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/F....html#htmlText

Are you sure that there isn't a max value? because i've tried with 160 and i have seen that it's bigger the the 72pt textfield but when i change 160 with 800 or more the font size doesn't change...

**Shaedo** · July 18th, 2010, 03:02 PM

Seems the limit is 96pt for all flash text. Can't even add it to a container and stretch that; you just seem to get a bigger text box... Sorry short of 'breaking it apart' (turn it into a vectored graphic) I don't know a solution

. hopefully someone else will

Just for the record it would be easy enough to send it to PHP, have php turn the text into a graphic and then send the graphic back to flash. Of course that would be wrong for so many ways

**LS05** · July 18th, 2010, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by Shaedo

Seems the limit is 96pt for all flash text. Can't even add it to a container and stretch that; you just seem to get a bigger text box... Sorry short of 'breaking it apart' (turn it into a vectored graphic) I don't know a solution

. hopefully someone else will

Just for the record it would be easy enough to send it to PHP, have php turn the text into a graphic and then send the graphic back to flash. Of course that would be wrong for so many ways

Of course for a preload like this http://116.ufc.com/ the php method is not good

.
When I've see this i want to reproduce this preload but the first problem is for sure the font size. Because of this i've written this topic.

**LS05** · July 19th, 2010, 09:54 AM

no one?

**jany** · July 19th, 2010, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by LS05

no one?

Dunno if this would help you, by turning the Text into a Bitmap, and scaling the Bitmap to become larger.

txt is my textField, and it is at 72pt sitting on the stage. Then I make it a bitmap and scale it up.

Code:

var bitmapData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(txt.width, txt.height, true, 0x00000000);
bitmapData.draw(txt);

var bitmap:Bitmap = new Bitmap();
bitmap.bitmapData = bitmapData;

bitmap.smoothing = true;
addChild(bitmap);
bitmap.scaleX = 5;
bitmap.scaleY = 5;

**LS05** · July 19th, 2010, 04:02 PM

I've tried with this and all works ok

code:

Code:

var txt:TextField = new TextField();
var frmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
txt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
frmt.font = "Arial";
frmt.size = 800;
frmt.color = 0xFF00FF;
txt.defaultTextFormat = frmt;
txt.text = "TRY WITH THIS";

var textHolder:Sprite = new Sprite();
textHolder.addChild(txt);
textHolder.scaleX = 10;
textHolder.scaleY = 10;
addChild(textHolder);

**jany** · July 19th, 2010, 04:28 PM

Great!

**LS05** · July 19th, 2010, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by jany

Great!

it is so simply that i'm surprised

**Shaedo** · July 19th, 2010, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by LS05

I've tried with this and all works ok

code:

Code:

var txt:TextField = new TextField();
var frmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
txt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
frmt.font = "Arial";
frmt.size = 800;
frmt.color = 0xFF00FF;
txt.defaultTextFormat = frmt;
txt.text = "TRY WITH THIS";

var textHolder:Sprite = new Sprite();
textHolder.addChild(txt);
textHolder.scaleX = 10;
textHolder.scaleY = 10;
addChild(textHolder);

Originally Posted by Shaedo

Can't even add it to a container and stretch that; you just seem to get a bigger text box...

oh I swear I tried that and it did not work for me; apparently adding the TextFormat is essential to allow it to be stretched. Excellent that it worked for you!

Just as a final note now you have a solution; the UFC preloader came up in forum question about a year ago and as I remember it someone apparently stripped it out and found that they were using sprites of numbers rather than text.

**LS05** · July 19th, 2010, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by Shaedo

oh I swear I tried that and it did not work for me; apparently adding the TextFormat is essential to allow it to be stretched. Excellent that it worked for you!

Just as a final note now you have a solution; the UFC preloader came up in forum question about a year ago and as I remember it someone apparently stripped it out and found that they were using sprites of numbers rather than text.

mmm i nevere tried that...if you have some code or reference i will thank you