Text.lineSpacing allows you to control the spacing between each line that is rendered.

Text.inputEnabled allows you to enable all input events over Text objects: dragging, clicking, etc - anything that works on a Sprite works on Text now too.

README.md

@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ New features:
 * Text now works happily with font names with spaces in them.
 * Text.setShadow applies a drop shadow to the Text being rendered. Control the x, y, color and blur.
 * Text.lineSpacing allows you to control the spacing between each line that is rendered.
+* Text.inputEnabled allows you to enable all input events over Text objects: dragging, clicking, etc - anything that works on a Sprite works on Text now too.
 
 
 New Examples:

examples/wip/text.js

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ var text;
 
 function create() {
 
-	game.stage.backgroundColor = '#c48844';
+	game.stage.backgroundColor = '#2d2d2d';
 
     text = game.add.text(game.world.centerX, game.world.centerY, "- phaser -\nwith a sprinkle of\npixi dust");
 
@@ -20,25 +20,44 @@ function create() {
 
     text.font = 'Art of Fighting 2';
     // text.font = 'Arial';
-    text.fontSize = 40;
+    text.fontSize = 30;
     // text.fontWeight = 'bold italic';
 
     //	x0, y0 - x1, y1
-	var grd = text.context.createLinearGradient(0, 0, 0, text.canvas.height);
+	// var grd = text.context.createLinearGradient(0, 0, 0, text.canvas.height);
+	// grd.addColorStop(0, '#8ED6FF');   
+	// grd.addColorStop(1, '#004CB3');
+    // text.fill = grd;
 
-	grd.addColorStop(0, '#8ED6FF');   
-	grd.addColorStop(1, '#004CB3');
-
-    // text.fill = '#ff0044';
-    // text.lineSpacing = 16;
-    text.fill = grd;
+    text.fill = '#ff0044';
+    text.lineSpacing = 16;
     text.align = 'center';
-    text.stroke = '#ff00ff';
+    text.stroke = '#000000';
     text.strokeThickness = 2;
 
-    text.setShadow(5, 5, 'rgba(0,0,0,0.5)', 5);
+    // text.setShadow(5, 5, 'rgba(0,0,0,0.5)', 5);
+    // text.wordWrap = true;
+    // test.wordWrapWidth = 50;
 
-    game.input.onDown.add(change, this);
+    // game.input.onDown.add(change, this);
+
+    text.inputEnabled = true;
+    text.input.enableDrag();
+
+    text.events.onInputOver.add(over, this);
+    text.events.onInputOut.add(out, this);
+
+}
+
+function out() {
+
+    text.fill = '#ff0044';
+
+}
+
+function over() {
+
+    text.fill = '#ff00ff';
 
 }
 

src/gameobjects/Sprite.js

@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ Object.defineProperty(Phaser.Sprite.prototype, "renderOrderID", {
 });
 
 /**
-* By default an Image won't process any input events at all. By setting inputEnabled to true the Phaser.InputHandler is
+* By default a Sprite won't process any input events at all. By setting inputEnabled to true the Phaser.InputHandler is
 * activated for this object and it will then start to process click/touch events and more.
 *
 * @name Phaser.Sprite#inputEnabled

src/gameobjects/Text.js

@@ -86,6 +86,16 @@ Phaser.Text = function (game, x, y, text, style) {
     */
     this._lineSpacing = 0;
 
+    /**
+    * @property {Phaser.Events} events - The Events you can subscribe to that are dispatched when certain things happen on this Sprite or its components.
+    */
+    this.events = new Phaser.Events(this);
+
+    /**
+    * @property {Phaser.InputHandler|null} input - The Input Handler for this object. Needs to be enabled with image.inputEnabled = true before you can use it.
+    */
+    this.input = null;
+
     PIXI.Text.call(this, text, style);
 
     this.position.set(x, y);
@@ -689,3 +699,39 @@ Object.defineProperty(Phaser.Text.prototype, 'shadowBlur', {
     }
 
 });
+
+/**
+* By default a Text object won't process any input events at all. By setting inputEnabled to true the Phaser.InputHandler is
+* activated for this object and it will then start to process click/touch events and more.
+*
+* @name Phaser.Text#inputEnabled
+* @property {boolean} inputEnabled - Set to true to allow this object to receive input events.
+*/
+Object.defineProperty(Phaser.Text.prototype, "inputEnabled", {
+    
+    get: function () {
+
+        return (this.input && this.input.enabled);
+
+    },
+
+    set: function (value) {
+
+        if (value)
+        {
+            if (this.input === null)
+            {
+                this.input = new Phaser.InputHandler(this);
+                this.input.start();
+            }
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            if (this.input && this.input.enabled)
+            {
+                this.input.stop();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+});