Is there a way to get the actual bounding box of a glyph in ActionScript?

Question

I\'m learning ActionScript/Flash. I love to play with text, and have done a lot of that kind of thing with the superb Java2D API.

One of the things I like to know i

Answer 1

Not reasonably possible in Flash 9 -- Richard's answer is a clever work-around, though probably completely unsuitable for production code (as he mentions) :)

If you have access to Flash 10, check out the new text engine classes, particularly TextLine.