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Best,
Karl
On Jul 9, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
The performance hit is when you try and animate or tween anything
that is cached as a bitmap. Every time that cached file changes, it
has to set it in cache again.
If the next frame or state of the text box has not had the text set
in it so it can be cached, then it caches an empty text box. Thus
removing the previous frames/states text.
I would set the variable before you set any texBoxes and then
reference the variable when you want to load the texBox. Or don't
cache as a bitmap.
I think what is happening is that the text is placed into the
textBox when the first frame is set but not holding once the
textBox changes frames.
If you set the variable first, then set the value of the textBox to
that variable, no matter which frame/state that textBox is in, it
should = that variable.
I have done this in some of my flash files and I didn't notice a
performance hit, but then again I didn't really test for that.
Another possible way of embedding multiple fonts is to load a swf
that has that font embedded in it and that is all.
You can make one for each font and load them on the fly before
setting the textBox that uses that font.
Then you don't have a bunch of font instances in your main swf,
just in their own separate (small size) swf
but can still have an instance of your font loaded to the stage for
embedding.
Mind you this is not a documented practice that I know of, just a
though of mine.
G.L.
Karl
On Jul 9, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Joel Stransky wrote:
I considered that Kari but it just too much of a performance hit
I'm afraid.
There might be something to combing cacheAsBitmap = true and
selectable =
false...
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Karl DeSaulniers
<[email protected]>wrote:
Can you set the value of the textBox to a variable in the first
state and
specify while tweening or any other function that the textBox =
thatVariable
while performing?
Might work. That way, while tweening or other, your specifying
that the
text is the same and loaded.
If it was an animation sequence, I would say put the textBox =
thatVariable; code on the "play" frames between tween key frames
for e.g..
JAT
Karl
On Jul 9, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Barry Hannah wrote:
I have a similar issue, runtime created Textfields in a
scrolling list.
If the mouse is within the bounds of the list and I use the
scrollwheel
to scroll, when the text goes under the cursor it vanishes. I've
tried
cache as bitmap, didn't work.
Any ideas to overcome this annoying little bit of Flash voodoo?
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Joel
Stransky
Sent: Friday, 10 July 2009 9:37 a.m.
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Subject: [Flashcoders] styled text disappears when clicked or
animated
I have an entire site full of runtime created TextFields. Some are
styled
with Stylesheet objects, others with TextFormat objects. That
all works
fine
but when it comes time to script some tweens on them or their
display
parents, the text disappears!
Running the .swf by itself locally tends to work just fine but
as soon
as a
browser displays it... poof, gone. I haven't done much testing
with and
without formatting/styling/embeded fonts since going without is
pretty
much
out of the question.
Anyone know the wicked little trick I know exists out there
somewhere? I
just want to finish this bad boy and get some sleep. :)
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