SWF::Text(3)

NAME
SWF::Text - SWF Text class

SYNOPSIS
        use SWF::Text;
        $text = new SWF::Text();

DESCRIPTION
Draw simple static texts.

NOTES:
    None.

METHODS

new SWF::Text()
    Creates a Text object.

$text->addString($string)
$text->addUTF8String($UTF8string)
$text->addWideString($widestring,$widestring_len)
    Writes the given $string into this Text object at the current pen position, using the current font, height, spacing, and color:

            $t->addString("Thai");
            $t->addUTF8String("\x{0E44}\x{0E17}\x{0E22}");
            $t->addWideString("\x{44}\x{0E}\x{17}\x{0E}\x{22}\x{0E}",3);

$text->setColor(red, green, blue [, alpha])
    Set the color of the text. An 8 bit value for each parameter. You can use he hex or decimal notation. Even mixed.

            $text->setColor(0xcc,0,0x33);
            $text->setColor(204,0,51,255);

$text->setFont($font)
    Sets an SWF::Font object -$font- to be used in the Text.

$text->setHeight($height)
    Sets this Text object's current height to given height.

$text->moveTo($x, $y)
    Move the Text's location to ($x, $y).

$text->setSpacing($spacing)
    Sets this Text object's current letterspacing to given spacing.

$text->getWidth($string)
$text->getStringWidth($string)
$text->getUTF8StringWidth($UTF8string)
$text->getWideStringWidth($widestring)
    Returns width of given string in pixels.

$text->getAscent()
    Returns the ascent of the current font at its current size, or 0 if not available.

$text->getDescent()
    Returns the descent of the current font at its current size, or 0 if not available.

$text->getLeading()
    Returns the leading of the current font at its current size, or 0 if not available.

AUTHOR
developers of ming ming.sourceforge.net

SEE ALSO
SWF, SWF::Font, SWF::TextField, ISO 10646 (Unicode)