Flash vs Silverlight: Simple Text Effect

Sep 29

Flash vs Silverlight: Simple Text Effect

Text Effect is a very common feature for many online application. Today, I am going to introduce you a simple, but also beautiful, text effect application. It’s time to decorate your application!

Comparison

Flash implementation: 70 minutes (Implemented First)
Silverlight implementation: 80 minutes
What’s the difference?

String to ASCII Code: charCodeAt [AS3] vs Convert.ToInt16 [C#]

Source codes

Simple Text Effect [Flash 9, AS3] (142.4 KiB, 1,981 hits)
Simple Text Effect [Silverlight 2, C#] (20.6 KiB, 2,792 hits)

Flash

Silverlight

String to ASCII Code: charCodeAt [AS3] vs Convert.ToInt16 [C#]

When you are working with text, you shouldn’t miss out the following following codes which convert a string value and ASCII code.

// AS3
var text:String = "Testing";

// Get the ASCII code for the character "T"
text.charCodeAt(0)

// Get the string value of the ASCII code 80
var char:String = String.fromCharCode(10);

In C#, you can achieve the same result by using the System.Convert Class.

// C#
String text = "Testing";

// Get the ASCII code for the character "T"
Convert.ToInt16(text.ToCharArray()[0]));

// Get the string value of the ASCII code 80
String char = Convert.ToChar(80).ToString();

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11 Responses to “Flash vs Silverlight: Simple Text Effect”

Phil’s .NET Development Blog » Blog Archive » Simple Text Effect in Silverlight Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 6:54 pm
[...] searching around the internet for inspiration, I came across Shine Draw’s Simple Text Effect page. This is one of their many Flash vs Silverlight examples. I liked it and downloaded their code to [...]
birdwing Says:
November 19th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Wow.

Silverlight can’t figure out what the spacebar is, everytime the effect runs you get the “embty characer block”

where as flash knows what to do.

I wonder if this is a code issue, or a font issue.
Wilbur Says:
December 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Hi,

I’m not to a Flash guru, and would like to know if there is anyway to let this move load without having to click first. I found this -

private function on_added_to_stage(e : Event):void{
// place the object to the stage
_simpleTextEffect = new SimpleTextEffect();
addChild(_simpleTextEffect);

var coverClass : Class = ApplicationDomain.currentDomain.getDefinition(”Cover”) as Class;
var cover : MovieClip = new coverClass();
addChild(cover);
cover.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, on_click);
}

How can I change this to load when the page loads?

Thanks
admin Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 3:18 am
HI Wilbur,

it’s quite simple, you can achieve this by:

private function on_added_to_stage(e : Event):void{
_simpleTextEffect = new SimpleTextEffect();
addChild(_simpleTextEffect);
_simpleTextEffect.start();
}
Wilbur Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Thanks, I figured it out *blush*. one small other thing… can i stop the loop?

// loop the text effect objects
private function expandTexts():void{
for(var i:int = 0; i < _textFields.length; i++){
var textField : TextField = _textFields[i] as TextField;
textField.scaleX += SCALE_INC;
textField.scaleY += SCALE_INC;
textField.x = - textField.textWidth/2 * textField.scaleX;
textField.y = - textField.textHeight/2 * textField.scaleX ;
textField.alpha -= ALPHA_DEC;
}
}
Mitch Says:
January 27th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Wow, thanks for this. I digested the code and learned a lot.
However, I when I try other fonts, the spacing gets wierd - even a simple font like Times!
Have you encountered this? Any suggestions?
Thanks again.
admin Says:
January 28th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Hi Mitch,

What type of weird will show up? Any print screen for me to have a look?
Mitch Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, I can send a print screen. Where to?
admin Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
you may send to admin[at]shinedraw.com
Simple Text Effect | Silverlike - A Free Microsoft Silverlight 3 Directory Says:
September 28th, 2009 at 6:23 am
[...] A very nice text switching effect shared by Shine Draw. [...]
pravin Says:
January 18th, 2010 at 7:58 am
Hi Everyone…

I liked the simple text effect very much. I want to have some changes in that effect, so that it can meet my requirement, what i saw is that when first line of text appears, it appears for while and after that next line appears in same line vanishing the first one. I want that second text must appear in next line and first row should not be vanished, but must be present…pls do help me…its urgent

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