RE: [Flashcoders] TextFormat Font Face = 'Wingdings' or 'Webdings'

PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GregoryN Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:54 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] TextFormat Font Face = 'Wingdings' or 'Webdings' It's Wingdings on my machine... And works well. Try to embed it into some textfield on the stage and then trace font

Re: [Flashcoders] TextFormat Font Face = 'Wingdings' or 'Webdings'

Try to embed it into some textfield on the stage and then trace font name. How would you do that? There is no mytextfield.font property. Only TextFormat.font and TextField (class).getFontList() which shows all the fonts on the user's system. Thanks for your advice, Jason Merrill

RE: [Flashcoders] TextFormat Font Face = 'Wingdings' or 'Webdings'

There is the myTextformat = myTextfield.getTextFormat() method that way you can get the font used in your textfield with myTextformat.font ! Alain, I understand, I already said essentially the same thing when I said: is no mytextfield.font property. Only TextFormat.font and... He suggested

RE: [Flashcoders] TextFormat Font Face = 'Wingdings' or 'Webdings'

Jason The only way I can ever get the dings fonts to display in a dynamic tf is by embedding them - even if they are on the users system. I assume this is something to do with the dings family being a symbol font. M He suggested I trace the font on the textfield, which is not the same

Re: [Flashcoders] TextFormat Font Face = 'Wingdings' or 'Webdings'

Hi Jason, It's not because you're using an HTML textfield, is it? Try tracing the test_txt.htmlText property after you're setting it - it might be doing something odd like wrapping it in a 'font face=Times New Roman' or something internally, even although you've set the Textformat.font to

RE: [Flashcoders] TextFormat Font Face = 'Wingdings' or 'Webdings'

The only way I can ever get the dings fonts to display in a dynamic tf is by embedding them - even if they are on the users system. I assume this is something to do with the dings family being a symbol font. Thanks Mike, that has to be it, or it's a bug, because all other tests I do confirm you

RE: [Flashcoders] TextFormat Font Face = 'Wingdings' or 'Webdings'

Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:25 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] TextFormat Font Face = 'Wingdings' or 'Webdings' The only way I can ever get the dings fonts to display in a dynamic tf is by embedding them - even if they are on the users system. I assume

Re: [Flashcoders] TextFormat Font Face = 'Wingdings' or 'Webdings'

It's Wingdings on my machine... And works well. Try to embed it into some textfield on the stage and then trace font name. Also, you can check for usual mistakes: missed semicolon (;-), not applied TextFormat etc. -- Best regards, GregoryN