LiquidText requires 6 parameters to be passed to the constructor. I’ll create variables to pass to the constructor so that you can better see what each does in the comments.

// first you have to import the class

import com.polygeek.ani.LiquidText;

// liquidLayer is a MovieClip that you can create in the authoring tool

// or at runtime. It's simply an empty MovieClip where the text will be placed

var liquidLayer:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip( "liquidLayer", this.getNextHighestDepth() );

// wrapShapes is an Array of MovieClips that the text will wrap around.

// You can pass as many MovieClips as you wish but the more you use

// the slower the rendering will run. In this case I'm passing just two

// shapes for the text to wrap around.

var wrapShapes:Array = [ shapeRight, shapeLeft ];

// wrapText is just the text that you will have wrapping around the shapes

// that you passed in the wrapShapes array. The more text there is the

// slower the rendering will run.

var wrapText:String = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. ...";

// the next two parameters describe the _x and _y position of where the first

// word will attempt to place itself in the liquidLayer.

var textAreaX:Number = 0;

var textAreaY:Number = 0;

//  textAreaWidth is just that, how wide a line of text can be

// before it wraps to the next line

var textAreaWidth:Number = 400;

// Optionally you can pass two more parameters:

// textFormat is the TextFormat that you define to adjust

// the size, font, ect. of the wrapText

var textformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

textformat.size = 14;

textformat.color = 0x000066;

textformat.font = "_sans";

// lineHeight is a number that describes how far it is from the top of

// one line of text to the top of the line below it.

var lineHeight:Number = 18;

// now create an instance of LiquidText

var liquidtext:LiquidText = new LiquidText( 	liquidLayer,

						wrapShapes,

						wrapText,

						textAreaX,

						textAreaY,

						textAreaWidth,

						textformat,

						lineHeight );

Here is what the previous code produces [ download source FLA | download LiquidText.as ]

Note: to add a line break to the text use the pipe symbol “|”.

Now that you have created an instance of LiquidText you can use the API to change some of the settings. Here is what you have available.

reflowText()
Recalculate the position of all the words in the wrapText. You would use this if one of the shapes
that the wrapText is wrapping around has moved. All of the other setters automatically call this method.

setTextAreaY( Number )
Change the _y location of where the first word should attempt to be placed.

setTextAreaX( Number )
Change the _x location of where the first word should attempt to be placed.

setTextFormat( TextFormat )
Change the TextFormat of the wrapText.

setLineHeight( Number )
Change the lineHeight – space from top of one line to the top of the next – of the wrapText.

setTextWidth( Number )
Change the width of the area that the wrapText will attempt to fill.