Comments on: Simple TextField Marquee

By: jackson

jackson — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:32:07 +0000

There are definitely ways of making the animation smoother, but this class is intended to be simple. If you'd like to, try using a scrollRect or mask on the MarqueeTextField to cut off some of the text and combine this with a smaller timer value (e.g. 50) to update more often. Exactly how to implement this is an exercise for the reader. :)

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:20:20 +0000

This is great cheers, is there a way of making the animation any smoother? Cheers

By: bala

bala — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:43:24 +0000

good work.

By: Naresh kumar

Naresh kumar — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:11:53 +0000

it was wonderful example to everyone i got how to fix the problem of height for text thanks soo much plzz provide few more examples on the flash by next time

By: jackson

jackson — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:26:07 +0000

You can also size the MarqueeTextField however you’d like. For examples:

// Use an auto-size
var tf:MarqueeTextField = new MarqueeTextField();
tf.text = "Some very long message with a lot of words";
tf.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat("_typewriter", 14, 0xff0000);
tf.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
 
// Use some other size that you compute
var tf:MarqueeTextField = new MarqueeTextField();
tf.text = "Some very long message with a lot of words";
tf.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat("_typewriter", 14, 0xff0000);
tf.width = stage.stageWidth / 2;

Note that I moved defaultTextFormat out of the constructor, which on second thought I think is a better idea design-wise.

By: ilu

ilu — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:39:54 +0000

ya thankyou i got it.But the Screen Displays the 6 letter Only.i need to display the Full Screen.how Can i do this?

By: jackson

jackson — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:41:07 +0000

Sure, just put something in the constructor of MarqueeTextField like this:

defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat(
    "_typewriter", // font
    14, // size in points
    0xff0000 // color
);

These could easily be parameters to the constructor for easy customization.

For more formatting options, see Adobe’s documentation

By: ilu

ilu — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:22:46 +0000

Hai Its Very useful information.But the Size of text is Very Small,How Can i add the size and Color?

By: cesar

cesar — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:42:49 +0000

Hey nice job, a great class for as3!!!

By: naive

naive — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:33:30 +0000

Thanx bro .it helped a lot