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)