eddyg
01-08-2006, 11:21 PM
Anybody got any ideas on how to efficiently simualte a 20-character by 4-row dot-matrix LCD in Flash, using either just AS2 or a combination of regular Flash elements and ActionScript?
I want to be able to provide a simple text string, like:
Artist: Blah de blah blahs
Album: The Blahs First
Song: Foo Bar, Foo Bar
Time: 1:45
and have it rendered in the flash document as "LCD pixels". Each "pixel" of the LCD would be a Library object that would be much larger than a pixel on a monitor -- i.e. a 6x6 graphic that represents the LCD pixel, and each letter would be made up of these objects.
I'm just looking for ideas on how to convert the ASCII text string to a graphic image. I don't want to use an embedded font that looks like a LCD type because I want the library element that is simulating an LCD "pixel" to be multi-colored, anti-aliased, etc.
In other words, I want to dynamically generate the display portion of something like this, but using just Flash, so I can programatically simulate a user interface:
http://www.igalaxie.com/ltt/mp3/lcd/lcd-01.jpg
making it nice and realistic looking...
I want to be able to provide a simple text string, like:
Artist: Blah de blah blahs
Album: The Blahs First
Song: Foo Bar, Foo Bar
Time: 1:45
and have it rendered in the flash document as "LCD pixels". Each "pixel" of the LCD would be a Library object that would be much larger than a pixel on a monitor -- i.e. a 6x6 graphic that represents the LCD pixel, and each letter would be made up of these objects.
I'm just looking for ideas on how to convert the ASCII text string to a graphic image. I don't want to use an embedded font that looks like a LCD type because I want the library element that is simulating an LCD "pixel" to be multi-colored, anti-aliased, etc.
In other words, I want to dynamically generate the display portion of something like this, but using just Flash, so I can programatically simulate a user interface:
http://www.igalaxie.com/ltt/mp3/lcd/lcd-01.jpg
making it nice and realistic looking...