Comments on: TextMetrics – Find substring coordinates, line widths, and much more

By: Rick Blommers

Rick Blommers — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:32:40 +0000

Thanks for this class, it works in almost all situations.

Except that I found a problem with calculating the line breaks with lines that contain a dash: ‘-’. Flash seems to word-break lines on a dash. The calculation doesn’t do this, so my line position calculation gets incorrect if I have a string like with a few dashes.

A fix for this is replacing the line:
words_array = lines_array[i].split(” “);

By first replacing all dashes with spaces and then splitting, it seems to work better:
words_array = lines_array[i].split(“-”).join(” “).split(” “);

Of course it wil not be exactly correct, but it worked for me.

By: Assaf Sahar

Assaf Sahar — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:50:13 +0000

Thank you for this wonderful class. It saved me a lot of time and trouble. I also use tweenmax and your XML parser and they all great!!!
Please keep doing a great job.

By: yogibali

yogibali — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:28:10 +0000

very.. very.. usefull class script … . thx alot..

By: Agustín

Agustín — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:47:15 +0000

DUDE!!! thanks yet again… I just keep bumping in your classes out of need, and they are always the bes and easier solution… you should apply to Adobe and teach them a bit about what a designer/developer needs.

or better yet, get some funding from Adobe and keep your awesome work, it’s because of you that Flash keep getting easier and easier to work with.

I totally agree with Andrew: “Most useful Flash class maker”

By: PlugFour

PlugFour — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:03:26 +0000

You are a beast guy! I wish I knew this existed for the past couple years.

By: Fats

Fats — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:52:49 +0000

Wow… i love you.
thanks for the class !

By: Andrew Merskin

Andrew Merskin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:05:31 +0000

Jack,

This is JUST what I was looking for… did God give you the title of “Most useful Flash class maker”?

An ActionScript 3 version would be lovely!

~ Andew

By: jack

jack — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:46:42 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Jake. I updated the class to include “\n” instead of “newline”.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:21:51 +0000

Great class Jack, very useful.

I did have one problem with it when I tried to implement the getLineMetrics method. It worked fine for some textfields, but for some it would give each line’s x value as the same as the top line. It turned out that for some of these textfields ‘newline’ was being input as undefined. I replaced ‘newline’ with “\n” and it worked fine.

And before you ask I have no idea exactly what these different textfields had in common, totally baffling! Just in case anyone else has the same issue.

Jake

By: gamecreature

gamecreature — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:24:27 +0000

Thank you very much!!
Works very nice!