You could use bitmapData and do it without embedding the font. Otherwise, just embed it.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Kevin McFarland <[email protected]> wrote: > (or at least that's what I think the subject was) > > Replying late (I'm in digest mode), but somebody asked about this. A few > people replied that it was possible, all you had to do was wrap the text > field in a movie clip. This works for static text field, but not for > dynamic > text fields -- you *do* have to embed the font, was my experience. Since no > one said anything to the contrary, I quickly re-tested , and I'm still > seeing the same thing: > > * create new .fla > * create dynamic text field inside an mc > * place onstage over a shape or another mc where you can verify alpha is > working > * assign alpha level to the mc > * add AS to set text, e.g. my_mc.my_txt.text = "hello"; > > result: text field displays "hello", but not text is not transparent. > > Then try the same thing after embedding the font. Now displays transparent. > > I see same results in both AS2 and AS3. Did I miss something? > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- http://ericd.net Interactive design and development _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
