Actionscript 3.0 rotate embedded text

Hi again,

I found a sample of this from another post at: http://www.peterjoel.com/Samples/circletext.php

I am trying to adapt the code and put it in a package, but I am getting an error.  In my main movie I call:

var myCircleText:DrawCircleText = new DrawCircleText("This is fun!");
      addChild(myCircleText);

This is the output:

This is fun!
ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property 0 not found on DrawCircleText and there is no default value.
      at DrawCircleText/init()
      at DrawCircleText()
      at contentTestPlay_fla::MainTimeline/init()
      at contentTestPlay_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()

Does anyone have an idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks again!

package {
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.events.Event;
 
	public class DrawCircleText extends Sprite {
		public var thisText:String;
		public var defaultStyle={spacing:4, size:30, fontID:"font1", col:0x000000}
		public var defaultCircle={x:0,y:0,radius:150,angle:0}
		public var theta = (defaultCircle.angle+180)*Math.PI/180;
		public var r:Number = defaultCircle.radius;
		public var spac:Number = defaultStyle.spacing;
		public var size:Number = defaultStyle.size;
		
		public function DrawCircleText(myText:String) {
			thisText = myText;
			init();
			
		}
		
		public function init():void {
			
			trace(thisText);
			var L:int = thisText.length;
			var cWidth0:Number=0;
			var cWidth1:Number=0;
			var c;
			for(var i:int=0; i<L; i++){
				c=thisText.substr(i,1);
				if(c==" "){
					cWidth0 = size/2+spac;
					
				} else {
					this[i]._xscale=size;
					trace(this[i]._xscale);
					this[i]._yscale=size;
					cWidth1=this[i]._width/2;
					trace("before theta");
					theta+= Math.atan((cWidth1+cWidth0+(i?spac:0))/r);
					trace("after theta");
					cWidth0=cWidth1;
					this[i]._x=Math.cos(theta)*r;
					this[i]._y=Math.sin(theta)*r;
					this[i]._rotation = theta*180/Math.PI+90;
					
				}
				
			}
			
		}
 
	}
 
 
}

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that example is an AS1 example.
how are you implementing this package? if i copy your code as is - i'm not getting that same error.

Hi,

I am just calling it like this in a main fla:

var myCircleText:DrawCircleText = new DrawCircleText("This is fun!");
      addChild(myCircleText);

Does the code work for you?  I was trying to use it in an AS3 application, so maybe that is the issue?

Thanks again!