Re: [Flashcoders] re: alpha for dynamic text without embedding font

2009-10-30 Thread Kevin McFarland
Ah, didn't realize this! (I'm still using CS3). Thanks for clarifying, Kenneth. I did say this before, but you can do this in Flash 10 - you do not need to embed fonts to apply alpha values to TextFields. -- Kenneth Kawamoto ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] re: alpha for dynamic text without embedding font

2009-10-29 Thread Kevin McFarland
As I described in my eMail I'm using author-time created assets. Follow the steps I described, you should see the same thing. Note: just verified that setting the alpha programmatically via AS (following setting the text of the dynamic field) instead of manually on the timeline, makes no

Re: [Flashcoders] re: alpha for dynamic text without embedding font

2009-10-29 Thread Glen Pike
You can't change the alpha of text if it's not embedded, unless you do take a bitmap snapshot of the movieclip with text in and use that instead of the live text. Kevin McFarland wrote: As I described in my eMail I'm using author-time created assets. Follow the steps I described, you should

Re: [Flashcoders] re: alpha for dynamic text without embedding font

2009-10-29 Thread Gerry
This is what I had suggested. If you can't or don't want to embed the font you'll need to take a snapshot of the text, delete the movieClip that contains the text then do your fades or alpha property to that snapshot. -Gerry On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Glen Pike wrote: You can't change

Re: [Flashcoders] re: alpha for dynamic text without embedding font

2009-10-29 Thread kennethkawam...@gmail.com
I did say this before, but you can do this in Flash 10 - you do not need to embed fonts to apply alpha values to TextFields. -- Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ 2009/10/29 Kevin McFarland ke...@teracent.com: As I described in my eMail I'm using author-time created assets. Follow

[Flashcoders] re: alpha for dynamic text without embedding font

2009-10-28 Thread Kevin McFarland
(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*

Re: [Flashcoders] re: alpha for dynamic text without embedding font

2009-10-28 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
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 ke...@teracent.com 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

Re: [Flashcoders] re: alpha for dynamic text without embedding font

2009-10-28 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Your applying the alpha to the mc before you load your text? Try it the other way. *create mc *create textfield *load text *change alpha of mc Karl Sent from losPhone On Oct 28, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Kevin McFarland ke...@teracent.com wrote: (or at least that's what I think the subject was)