I've not ever noticed a situation like that with a layout change, but then I
don't usually apply fades to text. The only time I bother with embedding a
font is for design purposes (a non system font is specified etc..) or if I'm
going to be applying rotation to the text; for example the flexlib
HAccordion uses vertical text in the header bar.

If the 'flicker' is really that noticeable, you can always resort to an old
Flash trick using a 'mask'. Place a blank or neutral background color Canvas
element 'on top' of the text, then do a Tween on it's alpha (1 to 0 for fade
in 0 to 1 for fade out). This allows you to 'fade' more than just text (e.g.
an detail info call-out that includes an image with text etc...).

The benefit of this technique is 1 - no flicker, and 2 - reduces compiled
swf size by leaving out the font.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:52 PM, John Waggener <[email protected]>wrote:

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> On Aug 5, 2010, at 6:47 PM, Lukas Bradley <[email protected]>
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> I'm assuming you're using Flex 3.5ish?
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> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:17 PM, John Waggener < <[email protected]>
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> How do you feel about embedded fonts in Flex?
>>
>> At the completion of a fade-in, the text shifts a pixel or so. Is there a
>> solution to this?
>>
>> I've noticed that wordwrap doesn't work so great - it may have something
>> to do with setting the percentage property.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Johnny
>>
>>
>>
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