Comments on: AS3 Dynamic Speech Bubble Snippet

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:39:11 +0000

Actually I figured it out. If anyone wants to know who may have missed what seems obvious to others...
You can remove the g:Graphics var. Instead add your object, in my case, Sprite, to the stage. Then in the code for implementation above, substitute 'g' with your sprite instance, ie. mySprite.graphics.clear(), etc.
Then in the SpeechBubble function call, replace 'this' with instance name of your Sprite. It'll render the fill and bubble effects on your Sprite, which can have events and stuff done with it.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:55:39 +0000

This is just what I needed. Now if I could just get it to go where I want it.
Would you have a moment to fill me in on how to target a sprite with the graphics. I have no problems getting the graphic to draw on the main timeline, but nothing I've tried will let me place the speech bubble inside a sprite or movieclip.

Thanks in advance.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:28:00 +0000

@guestcheap totally.. although check the comment at the top of the source file.

By: guestcheap

guestcheap — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:08:04 +0000

Hey,
is this class free to use?
Commercially, I mean?

By: drayfuss

drayfuss — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:27:42 +0000

Hi Ash,

was just wondering what the chances of you advising me on how to implicate a maxLength variable for the pointer on this bubble?

A minLength would also be great.

Cheers,
drayfuss

By: Multimediax

Multimediax — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:36:05 +0000

Ok I guess I'm trying to revive this post. Has the function that causes the point to follow the mouse been removed. That is the coolest part? Can you post the function for that? I simply get the bubble and static point.

By: daniel

daniel — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:54:24 +0000

nice one
handy class
thanks

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:13:25 +0000

RhythmOne: This snippet draws the bubble shape only. You would have to create a component to create the text field, etc.

By: RhythmOne

RhythmOne — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:22:59 +0000

I am new to ActionScript (but not new to coding/programming). Can someone please enlighten me as to how you would use text with this bubble? Is there an element to put text into? or would you create a text obj in a layer that resides on top of the bubble.

By: mikeyq6

mikeyq6 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:37:49 +0000

Nice one. Was looking for a custom renderer for my Flex chart data tips, and this works perfectly. Had more trouble with Flex Docs posting incorrect code!