[as]
GGGGG IIIIII AAA NN NN TTTTTT
GG II AAAAA NNN NN TT
GG GGG II AA AA NNNNNN TT
GG GG II AAAAAAA NN NNN TT
GGGGG IIIIII AA AA NN NN TT
LL EEEEEEE TTTTTT TTTTTT EEEEEEE RRRRR SSSSS
LL EE TT TT EE RR RR SS
LL EEEE TT TT EEEE RRRRR SSSS
LL EE TT TT EE RR RR SS
LLLLLLL EEEEEEE TT TT EEEEEEE RR RR SSSSS
RRRRR OOOO CCCCC KK KK
RR RR OO OO CC CC KK KK
RRRRR OO OO CC KKKK
RR RR OO OO CC CC KK KK
RR RR OOOO CCCCC KK KK
[/as]
Well, at several classes now, I’ve promised to upload this baby so people could use it and at FOTB I swore I’d do it that day! My treachery knows no bounds apparently.
OK so here it is! NOTE: it only does letters and spaces – no special characters, no numbers, just the 26 letters of the English alphabet and a space.
The story about this is that, when I first got involved with Papervision3D and looking at Carlos’ code, he had these HUGE comments in the code. At first I thought he was just having a helmet day, but I soon realized how genius these things were day in and day out. If you’re like me, your code is like a painting more than 1′s and 0′s – I like to organize it, make it look pretty. If it’s ugly, who wants to stare at it all day long?!? am I right??
So, one day I finally said “hey can I get that letter generator you use for your comments?” and Carlos’ then informs me he creates them by hand…OYE!! can you believe that?! Well, now we have the GiantLetterCreator 
Well these ginormous letters help you find your stuff very quickly and really help to make it idiot proof for the next person looking at your code. True, in the samples I’ve shown in class, the class was 200 lines of code, and nearly 70% of it was comments, but who cares. It helps and yeah I could use outline tools in FlexBuilder to navigate to other sections of my code, but that’s slow. Taking time to switch tabs, then sort, then scroll….bleh! big LETTERS rock.
Instructions: Type in your letters/spaces and hit enter. It’ll copy the text to your clipboard. Go paste your giant letter happiness.
[ download the swf ]
November 16, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Cool! It will be nicer to copy the text to clipboard containing the carriage returns
. Thanks.
November 16, 2007 at 4:13 pm
eeeeek
Java style block comments seem to do the job perfectly well. Those big letters definately aren’t as readable due to the whitespace found in each letter.
November 16, 2007 at 4:43 pm
i love it! nice job. it would be cool to have options about what kind of comment to create with it, // or /*…
November 16, 2007 at 4:48 pm
… or
November 16, 2007 at 4:49 pm
haha, putting the opening tag of an HTML style comment ate the rest of my reply
November 16, 2007 at 4:57 pm
They work great when I’m teaching or speaking – nobody gets lost
November 16, 2007 at 11:01 pm
TTTTTT HH HH IIIIII SSSSS RRRRR OOOO CCCCC KK KK SSSSS
TT HH HH II SS RR RR OO OO CC CC KK KK SS
TT HHHHHHH II SSSS RRRRR OO OO CC KKKK SSSS
TT HH HH II SS RR RR OO OO CC CC KK KK SS
TT HH HH IIIIII SSSSS RR RR OOOO CCCCC KK KK SSSSS
November 16, 2007 at 11:02 pm
well almost…
November 17, 2007 at 3:00 pm
[...] John posted a “Giant Letter Creator” on his blog. The idea is nifty, but what caught my attention was that I could use my ‘trick’ from the Dazzling Bat Man Text Effect to, (and this is probably the only time in my life I can say this) ONE UP :buttrock:JOHN GRDEN:buttrock: , [...]
November 17, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Hi John,
This inspired me to use an old trick I had up my sleeve to achieve something similar, using any font and any character:
http://www.sakri.net/blog/?p=20
http://sakri.net/technology/flash/flex/huge_text/HugeText.html
…excuse my poor taste and even more bankrupt sense of humor
Cheers, sakri
November 19, 2007 at 10:56 am
[...] I overcame the font size limitation of my previous attempt at the ““Giant Letter Creator”” by focusing on the bitmap image, not the text field. So now, I create the desired text, in the desired font at size 12. Then I grab a BitmapData of it using matrix to scale it, and base the “comment text” rendering on this. [...]
April 8, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Must have: ,