Tim, Thanks for the detailed reply. Unfortunately, this only fixes half the problem... With your recommended changes in place, the size of the TextArea now restores after a brief flicker, but the HTML formatting of the content is still lost.
Even if I reassign the HTML text to the TextArea inside your updateTextSize function so it happens after the font change is complete, only the raw text appears, and the formatting (even non-font-dependent formatting such as <br/>, <li> etc.) is lost. I read and appreciate your point about the bold face text requiring an embedded bold font, but even the non font-dependent formatting (as above) is lost. Any ideas on how to restore the formatting after the font change? Thanks again, Toby --- In [email protected], "Tim Hoff" <timh...@...> wrote: > > > I'll let the engineers let you know why this is happening. But, you can > get it to work with the following steps (hack): > > 1) Remove height="200" from the test Text control. > > 2) Add this function: > > private function updateTextSize():void > { > test.invalidateSize(); > } > > 3) On the ComboBox change event, execute callLater(updateTextSize); > > Note: If you use embedded fonts, a boldface font must be available for > <b></b> to work. > > -TH > > --- In [email protected], "tphipps" <toby.phipps@> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've seeing some strange behaviour with a mx:Text component using > htmlText. > > > > It seems that when the fontFamily of the text component is changed at > runtime from an embedded font to a device font (or vice versa), the > content is truncated, and the HTML formatting lost. However, when > changing from one device font to another (or one embedded font to > another), it works just fine. > > > > Take this example (view source enabled but without the actual font > files included - any OTF should work fine): > http://dev.nx.sg/lab/fontchange/FontChange.html > > > > This app initializes the text component with some htmlText using a > device font ("_sans" in this case). Once loaded, try changing the font > to another device font (e.g. Courier New or Myriad) with the dropdown. > Everything's fine. Now change to an embedded font, and note the > truncation and loss of formatting. > > > > The reverse happens if I initalize the field with an embedded font - > changing to another embedded font works fine but changing to a device > font ends up truncating again. > > > > Anyone got any ideas how to make this work? > > > > Thanks, > > Toby. > > >
