Best way to create background for showtext?

mds · July 26, 2012 at 9:58 PM

Hey krpanoers,

Any ideas on the best way to create this:

By using the bg pieces like this:

Can showtext do that or would I need to go the textfield.swf route?

Thanks!!

mds · July 26, 2012 at 10:56 PM

Here's what I've got so far. Just need an action now to make the pieces size and position properly.

Code

<textstyle name="textstyle"
font="Helvetica"
fontsize="14.0"
bold="true"
italic="false"
background="false"
backgroundcolor="0x000000"
backgroundalpha="0"
border="false"
bordercolor="0x000000"
textcolor="0xFFFFFF"
alpha="1.0"
blendmode="normal"
effect="dropshadow(1,90,0x000000,2,1);"
origin="cursor"
edge="bottom"
textalign="topcenter"
xoffset="0"
yoffset="-25"
showtime="0.1"
fadetime="0.25"
fadeintime="0.25"
noclip="true"
/>


<plugin 
name="textbg" 
url="textbgblank.png" 
align="center" 
x="0" y="0" 
visible="true" 
keep="true" 
alpha=".5" 
/>


<plugin name="textbgleft" 	url="textbgleft.png" 	parent="textbg" align="topleft" 		x="-48"  y=""  	visible="true" keep="true" />
<plugin name="textbgmid" 	url="textbgmid.png" 	parent="textbg" align="center" 			x="0" 	 y="0"  visible="true" keep="true" width="72"/>
<plugin name="textbgright" 	url="textbgright.png" 	parent="textbg" dalign="topright" 		x="-48"  y=""  	visible="true" keep="true" />
<plugin name="textbgarrow" 	url="textbgarrow.png" 	parent="textbg" align="bottomcenter" 	x="0"  	y="-7" 	visible="true" keep="true" />

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