Text Rotation Effects
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This is a demo of Flash’s “Rotate” effect being applied to a TextArea. You can run it by selecting “RotateDemo” from the right-hand menu.
What is important about this demo is the method by which it was achieved.
All of the functionality in this demo is done by Lisp using reflection to access the underlying Flash methods, properties and styles. Or, stated another way, Vst Lisp is becoming capable of doing anything that can be done with Flex.
At the moment, the Lisp “primitive” functions are coded by hand. The next step is to add the capability to generate the Lisp functions automatically by inspecting metadata from the Flash runtime.
