I ended up using Shared libraries but that wasn't the problem. I'm almost
embarrassed to say...
I had a movieclip where I was setting it's visibility to false and therefore
wasn't seeing it. Wow... that was definitely a dumba$$ moment. I did however
find that the shared library route was much more predictable.
Everyone probably knows this but I'll post what I did anyway...
I made a separate .fla called SharedFonts.fla and inside of that created a
font symbol. I then checked the "Export for ActionScript" and the "Export in
first frame" checkboxes. From there, I imported the SharedFonts.fla into my
view .fla containing the text to which I wanted to apply the particular
font. This part is a bit counter-intuitive. In order for the symbol to be
available during runtime from my view .swf, the symbol inside of the view
fla has to have a few properties set as well. First you must check the
"Export for ActionScript" checkbox and supply a linkage identifier. Second,
and this is the counter-intuitive portion, you MUST check the "Export for
runtime sharing" check box and subsequently provide the location to the
shared library .swf containing the font symbol. In my case this was
SharedFonts.swf. Last, and I'm not sure if this is necessary or not, is to
check the "Export in first frame".
So, to recap...
1. Create a SharedFonts.fla that will contain the font symbol you want to
use in another movie.
2. Create the font symbol in SharedFonts.fla. Once the font symbol is
created make sure to check the "Export for ActionScript", "Export in first
frame" checkboxes in the Properties dialog box.
3. Publish the .swf for the SharedFonts.fla.
4. Open the .fla in which you want to use the font symbol from
SharedFonts.swf.
5. Then, go to File -> Import -> Open shared library... and open
SharedFonts.fla
6. Drag the font symbol from the SharedFonts.fla library into your other
fla's library that will be using the font.
7. Once the font symbol from SharedFonts.fla is in your other .fla's library
right click on it (in your other .fla's library) and go to properties. Check
the "Export for ActionScript", "Export for runtime sharing" and "Export in
first frame" checkboxes. Supply the location to SharedFonts.swf (e.g.
SharedFonts.swf or somepath/SharedFonts.swf) in the URL field below the
checkboxes.
8. Publish your other .fla and you should be good to go.
One thing to be mindful of is the path to your SharedFonts.swf. This MUST be
correct in order for these shared fonts to work. To simplify things I just
placed the SharedFonts.swf in the same directory as my other .swf.
I hope this helps someone....
Cheers,
Thomas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Pike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] createTextField and embedding fonts
Hi,
Yes, you will probably need to use "runtime sharing" and load in the
fonts contained in a different file.
Glen
The question I have is it possible to apply a TextFormat to a TextField
using an embedded font that is NOT
in the container swf's library? If not then that is my problem and I
think I can use shared libraries to counter
this behavior. Either way, I was wondering if someone could clarify some
of this for me.
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