Comments on: AS3 Dynamic Speech Bubble Snippet

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!

By: BeechyBoy

BeechyBoy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:30:44 +0000

Got it to do what I needed it to do now, cheers

By: BeechyBoy

BeechyBoy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:55:34 +0000

Thank you for the swift reply Ash, I'm just having a mental block it seems :s I have a MovieClip on the stage and I want to put the SpeechBubble in it, or use the MovieClip to attach the pointers to... I'd really appreciate a final tip to get this clear in my head. Many thanks Ash. SpeechBubble.drawSpeechBubble(holder_mc, bubbleBody, 20, pointers);

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:42:06 +0000

BeechyBoy: This class isn't designed to be an extension of MovieClip. You need to create a MovieClip on stage, and then pass it in to the static draw method, as in the example.

By: BeechyBoy

BeechyBoy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:32:51 +0000

When I try this out in Flash, it compiles with the following errors:
5000: The class 'SpeechBubble' must subclass 'flash.display.MovieClip' since it is linked to a library symbol of that type.

By: sid

sid — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:00:32 +0000

Ash can you share the as2 code...

By: Stringycustard

Stringycustard — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:53:44 +0000

I did something similar, but I tweened all the corners and the tag into new positions (it's "wobbly" in effect). I don't have the source anymore unfortunately, as I moved companies but I can redo it if anybody is interested. It was done in AS3 but I can code either...