The second version of Creative TextFX has its foundations in a product you may know and like – Creative TextFX, the first version (please click here to read the documentation for Creative TextFX v1). However, the product has evolved a lot referring both to the visual aspect as well as the functional one.
Creative TextFX’s main use-case is to insert a text on the Flash stage and enhance its visual impact by animating it; there are plenty of effects to choose from, and their implementation on the text is done easily from the component’s interface. This becomes very simple and intuitive with the new Time Manager available in Creative TextFX; practically, the effect’s structure is visible from the beginning and through all the effect configuration process. Three types of effects can be applied on a text: In and Out effects which create transitions into and from the stage and wait effects which animate the text in its place, between the In and Out effects.
A new, very interesting feature that was added to the new version of Creative TextFX is the possibility to apply the effect on different-sized blocks of text; therefore, if a text is animated, the effect can affect it at a letter-level, a word-level, a text-line-level, at the entire-text-level or at a custom level defined by the user.
New to the second version of Creative TextFX are also the dynamic effects or the actions triggered by the mouse behavior. Effects which create a button appearance are available and actions like adding sound, moving along the timeline, adding an URL or executing a function are only a few clicks away.
In order to conclude the visual enhancements available in Creative TextFX, filters have been added to the component. Filters like drop shadow, blur and many more are easily configurable from the product’s interface and the visual effect obtained is great.
Creative TextFX is fully configurable from its interface and requires absolutely no coding knowledge.
However, for the users that prefer instantiating and configuring directly from ActionScript, there is an ActionScript dictionary available in the documentation. Practically, this dictionary transports all the Creative TextFX’s functions – available in the interface – in the Actions panel. Furthermore, perhaps one of the most important improvements in Creative TextFX when it comes to coding is that the component is ActionScript 3.0 compliant, which gives a major boost to the component’s robustness and performance.
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