rotate textfield in flash cs5 - flash-cs5

Question

I have a dynamic textfield with anti-alias type "use device font".When I rotate the textfield the text dissappears and reappears when textfield has been rotated to 360 degree.Please suggest me way to achieve this.Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Since Flash Player 10 you can rotate DisplayObjects' by adjusting their rotationZ property. You can also do this with your TextField. Besides that you can also use the TextBlock class to parse TextLines and rotate them accordingly.
For more information check out this blogpost:
http://www.yswfblog.com/blog/2009/05/21/the-knack-to-rotating-dynamic-text-in-flash-10/
And here's the code from that same blogpost:
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.engine.*;
public class TextTest extends Sprite
{
public function TextTest ()
{
for (var i:int = 0; i <= 20; i++)
{
var txt:TextField = new TextField();
txt.selectable = false;
txt.width = 300;
txt.height = 100;
txt.text = "Hello world!";
txt.setTextFormat(new TextFormat("Georgia", 2 + 2*i));
txt.x = 6*(i*(i+1)/2);
txt.y = 30;
txt.rotationZ = 20;
addChild(txt);
}
for (var j:int=0; j<=20; j++)
{
trace(j);
var myString:String = "Hello world!";
var myFormat:ElementFormat = new ElementFormat();
var myFontDesc:FontDescription = new FontDescription("Georgia");
myFormat.fontSize = 2 + 2*j;
myFormat.fontDescription = myFontDesc;
var textElement:TextElement = new TextElement(myString, myFormat);
var textBlock:TextBlock = new TextBlock();
textBlock.content = textElement;
var myTextLine:TextLine = textBlock.createTextLine(null, 300);
myTextLine.x = 6*(j*(j+1)/2);
myTextLine.y = 150;
myTextLine.rotation = 20;
addChild(myTextLine);
}
}
}
}