Creative TextFX v2
TextFX v2 comes with a new transition type; now it offers the ability to animate the text when it's in the visible state, between the In and Out transitions.
There over 300 different predefined effects to choose from, and they can be easily customized from the component's interface (check out the main effects gallery).
Although Creative TextFX includes a large number of different effects, additional effect packs will be available periodically, making the component fresh and innovative now as well as later on.
New to the second version of TextFX are the dynamic effects or the actions triggered by the mouse behavior. Effects which create a button behavior 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 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 a Flash text effects component that allows you to customize the effects duration to any desired value, unlike the other similar products on the market.
With TextFX V2 you have full control over the text. Thanks to the rich text editor you can write with different colors, different styles and different fonts in the same text instance. Having this power over the text means that that there are no limits on your creativity.
As Creative TextFX is a text effects component, font manipulation is an important part and was treated accordingly. All the installed fonts are available to be selected in the component's interface and the target text can be embedded in the Flash movie by simply pressing one button. Moreover, the smart embedding system optimizes the movie in order to obtain a minimal size.
The second version of TextFX comes with two great new features - the ability to write on multiple lines and the ability to align the text (left, right or center).
Added to the new version of 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.
By configuring the intuitive and easy-to-use parameters you can customize the effects to suit your needs in literally no time at all. The configuring procedure requires absolutely no coding knowledge.
We have developed an advanced preview system that can significantly boost the users' productivity, by allowing them to configure the effect and preview the result without publishing the Flash movie.
Each effect configuration can be saved as a preset for later use; preset-use is optimized in TextFX, as the user has a lot of control over them through the "Manage presets" section of the interface.
The interface of the product was designed to offer the user the possibility to access easily and fast any of TextFX's functionalities; in the same time, the way it's divided in sections allows the user to employ all the product's options in a natural way, without unnecessary pauses in the workflow.
This section of the interface allows the user to control the effect one or more of the three elements: In, Out and Wait Duration.
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 - and, most important, all the effect elements are accessible from the product interface and can be configured at the same point in the project workflow.
With the help of the intuitive parameter settings every effect and every predefined effect are 100% customizable.
Although the user interface is intuitive and easy-to-use, we understand it's difficult to remember what all the parameters for all the effects do. That's why we have created the contextual help, which describes any interface element with only one click.
One of the most important improvements in 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.
As we have created the component having efficiency in mind, Creative TextFX has a smart system that keeps the file size minimal by adding to the movie only the elements - embedded fonts, effects and so forth - employed in the final version of the component.
This powerful feature gives users the power to control the animations not only visually, but also through ActionScript. This powerful method for any programmer becomes very simple to use as all the ActionScript elements - properties, methods, constructor parameters and events - are thoroughly documented in the ActionScript Dictionary present in the complete product documentation.
TextFX V2 is a component rebuilt completely from top to bottom. It has a more robust engine, new effects, new interface, it's much easier to use and it can be extended with new Effect Packs.
