Using animated text components

Is there a way to figure out how many frames a text effect
will need to complete it's cycle by looking at the component
inspector.
Or is it just a trial and error kind of thing. I downloaded
the supreme4 effects and they are pretty cool.
thank you
kevin

PS 3D text and AE 3D text at this point are two completely different, incompatible things. You cannot even import 3D PSDs because due to running out of time and resources to do it, it has been stripped from CS6, while it existed in CS5.5 down to CS4. So whatever you do, you will have to re-create it from scratch in AE. If you use native text layers, then yes, they will be able to use the text animators to allow animating letters separately as will creating each extrusion as a separate shape layer. many ways to skin the cat.
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http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/animating-text.html#text_animation_presets
http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/effects-animation-presets-overview.html
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[svn:fx-trunk] 10214: This fixes the problem that if two text components share the same textFlow there is an infinite loop involving updateDisplayList - damageHandler - invalidateDisplaylist - back to updateDisplayList.

Revision: 10214
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-09-13 07:33:58 -0700 (Sun, 13 Sep 2009)
Log Message:
This fixes the problem that if two text components share the same textFlow there is an infinite loop involving updateDisplayList -> damageHandler -> invalidateDisplaylist -> back to updateDisplayList. The bug file was for TextArea which is RET but the same bug was in RichText as well.
This example with a renderer exposed it because the typicalItem that is composed to figure out sizes and the actual first item in the list share the same textFlow. It actually has nothing to do with useVirtualDisplay other than it was sharing a textFlow.
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Doc notes:
Bugs: SDK-23002
Reviewer: Gordon
Tests run: checkintests, TextArea, TextInput and NumericStepper
Is noteworthy for integration: no
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23002
Modified Paths:
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    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/components/supportClasses/RichEditable TextContainerManager.as

Revision: 10214
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-09-13 07:33:58 -0700 (Sun, 13 Sep 2009)
Log Message:
This fixes the problem that if two text components share the same textFlow there is an infinite loop involving updateDisplayList -> damageHandler -> invalidateDisplaylist -> back to updateDisplayList. The bug file was for TextArea which is RET but the same bug was in RichText as well.
This example with a renderer exposed it because the typicalItem that is composed to figure out sizes and the actual first item in the list share the same textFlow. It actually has nothing to do with useVirtualDisplay other than it was sharing a textFlow.
It turns out that the TextFlowFactory dispatches damage events every time the textFlow is composed. Unlike when the flowComposer is used, it always considers the flow damaged. It was exacerbated by each of the two components having a damage handler for the same textFlow.
The solution is to use the textFlow generation number. In the damageHandler if the generation is the last known generation number, assume no changes, and return immediately from the damage handler.
QE notes: There are 1 TextArea, 6 TextInput and 2 NumericStepper failuers, with or without my changes. The common link seems to be DispatchKeyEvent. Most were testing maxChar, displayAsPassword and restrict. I tested these and they seem to be working correctly.
Doc notes:
Bugs: SDK-23002
Reviewer: Gordon
Tests run: checkintests, TextArea, TextInput and NumericStepper
Is noteworthy for integration: no
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23002
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/components/RichEditableText.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/components/RichText.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/components/supportClasses/RichEditable TextContainerManager.as

GetCharBoundaries equivalent in spark text components

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Good catch! Can you please file a bug at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex/ and include a simple test case (actually, I was able to repro with the test case below if you want to use that code)? (and then post the bug number here so I can subscribe and assign to the correct person).
You can see from the code below that the flowComposer seems to be null by default, but if you edit the code you will get a flowComposer object back.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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