A text effect question with onEnterFrame

hi, i have a question.... when the text coming in.... the last few characters do not have same space between them...how to fix them ?? thanks

Well...  I don't know how to tackle that one when the letterSpacing is set to a constant(16)...
and there isn't any good way to check the width of the character...

You could probably try this line and see if that works...  If not, I have no clue...  :(

Find this line...
this._parent["letter"+letterNum]._x = startX + letterNum*letterSpacing;

Add this line before that line...
letterSpacing = this._parent["letter"+letterNum]._width;
// or
letterSpacing = this._parent["letter"+letterNum].letterText._width;

CyanBlue

i think it is because some letters are fatter then others.... like O is wider then I and O does not have space around but I has a lot empty space...so, maybe that is why it looks a little strange....

Yup...  That's what I meant...  :)

CyanBlue

I put these script together.... feel a bit strange... do you see any error in the script ? i combine the text effect and a mouse trailer. thanks

////////////////////////////////
///////// Text effects /////////
////////////////////////////////
MC_point.onLoad = function() {
      // constants
      text = "CONGRADULATIONS!";
      letterSpacing = 14;
      // how far apart the letters are
      startX = 90;
      // horizontal position of leftmost letter
      startY = 20;
      // vertical position of letters
      startScale = 600;
      // how big the letters start
      scaleStep = 50;
      // how much the letters shrink per frame
      startRate = 3;
      // how often new letters appear
      // create all movie clips
      for (i=0; i<text.length; i++) {
            MC_point._parent.attachMovie("Letter", "Letter"+i, i);
            // fill with letter
            MC_point._parent["letter"+i].letterText = text.charAt(i);
            // start in correct position
            MC_point._parent["letter"+i]._x = startX+i*letterSpacing;
            MC_point._parent["letter"+i]._y = startY;
            // start at largest size
            MC_point._parent["letter"+i]._xscale = startScale;
            MC_point._parent["letter"+i]._yscale = startScale;
            // make invisible until needed
            MC_point._parent["letter"+i]._visible = false;
      }
      // start with first letter
      lastLetter = 0;
      MC_point._parent["letter0"]._visible = true;
      frame = 0;
};
MC_point.onEnterFrame = function() {
      // change all letters until last visible one
      for (i=0; i<=lastLetter; i++) {
            if (MC_point._parent["letter"+i]._xscale>100) {
                  MC_point._parent["letter"+i]._xscale -= scaleStep;
                  MC_point._parent["letter"+i]._yscale -= scaleStep;
            }
      }
      // make one more letter visible, when enough frames have passed
      frame++;
      if (frame>=startRate) {
            frame = 0;
            lastLetter++;
            MC_point._parent["letter"+lastLetter]._visible = true;
      }
};

////////////////////////
//////Mouse trailer/////
////////////////////////
var mouseListener:Object = new Object();
see._visible = 1;
_level0.i = 1;
star_Parent._x = starParent._y = -100;

mouseListener.onMouseMove = function() {
     _level0.i++;
     star_Parent.duplicateMovieClip("star"+ _level0.i, _level0.i + 10);
     star_Parent._parent["star"+i]._x = _level0._xmouse;
     star_Parent._parent["star"+i]._y = _level0._ymouse;
     star_Parent._parent["star"+i].onEnterFrame = function()
      {
           if (see == "0")
           {
                 this._visible = 0;
           }
           else
           {
                 this._alpha -= 5;
                 this._rotation += 2;
                 this._xscale -= 5;
                 this._yscale -= 5;
                 if (this._alpha<=10)
                 {
                       this.removeMovieClip();
                 }
           }
     };
};
Mouse.addListener(mouseListener);

I don't know what I am looking for...
Can you tell me what is not working and how it should be working???

CyanBlue

ok, the problem is.... the text does not always show fully after I add the Mouse trailer script.....sometimes one letter does not show ( ex, ! or O or N ) ..... maybe there is something in Mouse trailer script causes these problems

The only thing I can think of the duplicate depth...

 star_Parent.duplicateMovieClip("star"+ _level0.i, _level0.i + 10);

Change that to this...

 star_Parent.duplicateMovieClip("star"+ _level0.i, _level0.i + 10 + 1000);

CyanBlue

yes, the script is prefect now.... thanks a lot !!!