Re: [Flashcoders] multi language support and font embed/styling best practices?

2008-12-30 Thread Ian Thomas
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Manish Jethani manish.jeth...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Jason Boyd jayb...@gmail.com wrote: - Resource bundles appear to be an elegant way to handle localization of any type of resource -- strings, fonts, animations, code classes, etc.

Re: [Flashcoders] multi language support and font embed/styling best practices?

2008-12-30 Thread Ian Thomas
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Ian Thomas i...@eirias.net wrote: I've successfully used Flex resource bundles with my plain AS3 projects. You just have to write your own 'ResourceBundle' API that mimics the one in the Flex framework. It doesn't even have to be so advanced. For instance, you

Re: [Flashcoders] multi language support and font embed/styling best practices?

2008-12-30 Thread Steve Mathews
It is possible to dynamically load embedded fonts. That is, create SWFs containing embedded font/glyph sets, then dynamically load these into a running app as needed and apply to even Flash CS-authored TextFields. It isn't obvious how to do this, but it is possible. Our group is exploring this

Re: [Flashcoders] multi language support and font embed/styling best practices?

2008-12-29 Thread Jason Boyd
Just Another Handle -- Do we work in the same team? : ) I second the question. The team I am on is trying to solve the same types of issues. What I've dug up so far has led to the following conclusions: - There are [too] many ways to deal with fonts, text, and styles in Flash/Flex. The list is

Re: [Flashcoders] multi language support and font embed/styling best practices?

2008-12-29 Thread Manish Jethani
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Jason Boyd jayb...@gmail.com wrote: - Resource bundles appear to be an elegant way to handle localization of any type of resource -- strings, fonts, animations, code classes, etc. They allow cascading from specific to default locales, mixing statically

[Flashcoders] multi language support and font embed/styling best practices?

2008-12-28 Thread Jah
greetings list. the team i am on is building an AS3 site that needs to support multi languages. I'm inquiring about best practices, custom built classes/solutions, etc for dealing with runtime font loading/sharing vs. embedding... basically a font management and styling solution allowing external

Re: [Flashcoders] multi language support and font embed/styling best practices?

2008-12-28 Thread Taka Kojima
The way I handle this is to use a server-side script to serve a swf file (as an RSL). I.e. fonts.php that checks against a language cookie (or session) and depending on the language serves up a different swf. The only thing you have to take into consideration here is caching, so make sure