Flash Site Design - custom shape dyamic text box

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custom shape dyamic text box

doodle999

2007-09-16, 6:15 pm

Hi all, I'm trying to make a simple flash banner for my website that will
display some news from an sql dbase. The design I'd like to have for the banner
will mean that in the area were the text for the news will be displayed, in the
bottom right corner there will be a button linking to a page for an archive of
all the news. So the text will be entered dynamically as the flash file plays
so is there any simple way I can shape the text box so the bottom right corner
would be inverted. Or just any method of preventing the text from being placed
in the same space as the button? thanks for any help, Marco

doodle999

2007-09-17, 6:15 pm

just a thought if any knows if this is possible. have two text boxes one above
the other and have the text entered into the first box and if i can somehow
detect if its full then enter the rest into the second box. Maybe I could just
use a maximum number of characters in the first text box but that would be a
too rough because not every character will be the same width etc. so if anyone
knows how to detect if a text box is full that would be great thanks.