Building on the work of Guojian Miguel Wu (http://code.google.com/p/swfvector/), this project provides a toolset for manipulating text as vector graphics.

If you would like to get involved in this project, let me know!

API NOTE

This repository is a work in progress! The API is not fixed, updates will break previous implementations. This notice will be removed once the API is settled.

Completed Work

The library currently includes

EnhancedTextArea

• text is constrained in a Rectangle;
• allows text to be best-fit, fit-to-width, fit-to-height or not scaled;
• text can be aligned to any corner of the Rectangle or to the centre.

Future development

I am currently working on

EnhancedTextInputArea

• overrides the EnhancedTextArea;
• when enabled it accepts keyboard input;
• accept gradient fills as well as colours.

In the future I intend to work on:

EnhancedTextArea

• map characters or strings to DisplayObject classes so that images can be integrated into text (smileys etc);
• justified text.

EnhancedTextOnPath

• constrain text to a curve.

Futher in the future I'd like to implement

TagCloud

• cloud is constrained in a Rectangle;
• words are sized according to their relative weight;
• words are clustered around a corner of the Rectangle or specified to fill the Rectangle as far as possible.