this issued was superseded by others for a time and then came back up. It's the kind of the thing no one noticed but the producer.
Setting the gridFitType explicitly to 'pixel' seems to have solved the problem of the text shifting after a Tweened fade in. Thanks for the feedback Johnny On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Darin Kohles <[email protected]> wrote: > That might be the case here. In your css you may want to play with > different settings. I believe anti-aliasing is set to 'advanced' by default. > So if the font face supports anti-aliasing, you should be able to play with > it (values are none, pixel, and subpixel). On the other hand, you an also > set fontAntiAliasType to false. Those are the only two I know of, and I > believe the GridFit is actually effected by your clients hardware (display > type) as well. > > Play with the values, and let us know what you find. And remember you can > always fall back on the 'mask' fade technique which is a simple work around. > > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:34 PM, John Waggener <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Thanks Darin. >> >> I work at a marketing company, so the designers insist on their fonts. In >> this case VGARounded. >> >> In Flash IDE, there is the antialiasType for animation. I've seen this >> problem corrected in Flash using this. >> >> In Flex, does 'fontGridFitType' pay a similar role? >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Darin Kohles <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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: >>> >>>> 3.2 >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Aug 5, 2010, at 6:47 PM, Lukas Bradley <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm assuming you're using Flex 3.5ish? >>>> >>>> >>>> Lukas >>>> >>>> Lukas Bradley . President >>>> 678.575.5067 m >>>> >>>> Thrust Interactive >>>> <http://www.thrustinteractive.com>http://www.thrustinteractive.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:17 PM, John Waggener <<[email protected]> >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Darin Kohles >>> Adobe Certified Developer >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Johnny Waggener >> Moxie Interactive >> > > > > -- > Darin Kohles > Adobe Certified Developer > -- Johnny Waggener Moxie Interactive
