Wrap a text around

[iden_tidad]

Hi I am using adobe flash pro CS6, and i was wondering how to make a text go around like in a circle, like it is on a coin... I don't know how to, thanks

[Ned Murphy]

Normally I'd use Illiustrator for that and copy the text from there.

[Andrei1-bKoviI]

Here is one of the ways to do that.

Note that you need to embed fonts. In the code below fonts are embedded from the same folder as your fla.

The main idea is in the function placeLetters() in the for...each loop.

Just make this class your document class.

package
{
    import flash.display.Graphics;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.text.Font;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.text.TextFormat;
    public class TextAround extends Sprite
    {
        private var text:String;
        private var container:Sprite;
        [Embed(source="ARIAL.TTF",fontName='_arial',mimeType="application/x-font",embedAsCFF='false',fontWeight='normal')]
        private var FONT:Class;
        private var radius:Number = 100;
        public function TextAround()
        {
            init();
        }
        private function init():void
        {
            text = "This is the text that goes around!!!";
            placeLetters();
        }
        private function placeLetters():void
        {
            var angle:Number = -90;
            container = new Sprite();
            container.x = stage.stageWidth * .5;
            container.y = stage.stageHeight * .5;
            var textField:TextField;
            for each (var s:String in text.split(""))
            {
                textField = new TextField();
                textField.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat("_arial", 12);
                textField.embedFonts = true;
                textField.autoSize = "center";
                textField.wordWrap = textField.multiline = false;
                textField.text = s;
                textField.rotation = angle + 90;
                textField.x = radius * Math.cos(angle * Math.PI / 180);
                textField.y = radius * Math.sin(angle * Math.PI / 180);
                container.addChild(textField);
                angle += 6;
            }
            // draw circle
            var g:Graphics = container.graphics;
            g.beginFill(0xFF8040);
            g.drawCircle(0, 0, radius);
            addChild(container);
        }
    }
}