Dynamic banner help

[arrrmatey]

Hi everybody... really happy I found this forum and site.

I've just started working in Flash but think I want to do something far beyond my skills. Want to know if it's even possible before I possibly hire someone or try to do it myself...

It's an animation of an airplane pulling a banner where the banner has dynamic text that's pulled from a form filled out on a website. I know that part is possible, but are these things possible:

1) making the banner adjust its length to automatically match the length of the text inside it

2) adding a tail onto the end of the banner that locates itself according to the length of the banner

3) making everything--the banner, the text and the tail--look as though wind is blowing it

The airplane animation could look something similar to this:
http://www.w3bstudio.com/helicopter.htm

Thanks for any advice!!

[franky87]

First of, I want to welcome you do the forum and hope we can help you.

I think every quesetion you had is possible to do. The textfield will be a dynamic TextField and you can use it's width property to find out what width to set on the banner.

The tail can be added to the banners x and y position. This will have to be updated everyframe.

Last bit I am not sure how I would have done it, but shouldn't be impossible to do.

[arrrmatey]

Thanks for the feedback. It's good to know this can be done.