Exploding Text

[vwiley1]

In a application I am creating I would like to explode text.
Let's say for example the text is in 5 different labels each one with a different letter finally making a 5 letter word. In my application I use a timer to make 1 letter appear at a time. After the word is there for about 15 seconds I would like to make it look like it has exploded.

Any ideas, ocx's, links, or source is very much appreciated.

Vince Wiley

i understand everything up to the exploding part. what do you mean by explode? do you want the letters to split apart and fly in all different directions or something? or do you really want some type of exploding sprite behind the letters or what?

try making a few frames of animation of the word that you want, and make it seem like it is exploding. =) i know i was of no help but reply and explain more on what you consider exploding text, and ill try to help.

[vwiley1]

sorry about that.

My definition of exploding in this case is the whole word splitting into a million little pieces and going everywhich way.

Vince

[kedaman]

Nice stuff. You could make a particle generator that put's every pixel in the text in an array of class modules. Then with some physics, you could make some really neat effects. To remove pixels behind, just make some static vars in the property Let that controls the movement, and setpixel them back to background color.

[Fox]

Have a look at my page, there's an example for doing this

[Zaf Khan]

Check out the picclip control, its ideal for you want to do

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