How to Turn a Word Into a Graphic Object?

[Scott Rossi]

See the formattedRect property and measureText function in the docs.  Both
should help you get what you want.

³Last² refers to the object type that is highest in the hierarchy:
set the name of the last image to ³myImage"

Also, the number of an object type will return the number of the highest
layered object:
put the number of images into N
set the name of image N to ³myImage"

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 3/26/15, 11:28 PM, "Brahmanathaswami" <brahma at hindu.org> wrote:

>I'm looking for a way to quickly turn words into graphic objects
>programmatically.
>
>If you have a field with the words
>
>"I am that I am"
>
>you can programmatically select each word and highlight it etc. but I
>don't think you can get the actual pixel location of the rect that the
>hilite takes on the screen... which, theoretically should be doable,
>since everything must be drawn on screen, everything has x,y coords and
>width and height.
>
>Assuming the rect of a hilited word *could* be extracted, then it would
>be easy to take a import a snap shot of it.
>
>an auxiliary question: when using "import snapshot" ... how can you set
>the name of the resulting image that is placed on the top of the card.
>It defaults to (e.g.) "image id 6578"  but one cannot know that ID... is
>there another way to refer to the latest created object?
>
>Swasti Astu, Be Well!
>Brahmanathaswami
>
>
>
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