Hello Jason,
>>From reading that article, what is SFM?
- Shared Fonts Manager www.sharedfonts.com about it.
MJ> Also, this is recommending using text fields placed off-stage which show
MJ> all the characters? I wanted to just do this from a class and have
MJ> minimal interaction with the .fla - the article also seems written for
MJ> an older version of Flash. Is this really the only way to reference a
MJ> font in the library from a static class?
In AS2 you can use special class for access to formats instead
_level0.fmt_container object
for example:
class FontsLibrary {
private static var container:Object;
public static function registerFormat (from_text_field:TextField):Void {
container = container || {};
if (!from_text_field.embedFonts) {
return;
}
var t_fmt = from_text_field.getNewTextFormat();
var name:String = t_fmt.font;
if (t_fmt.bold) {
name += "_bold";
}
if (t_fmt.italic) {
name += "_italic";
}
container[name] = t_fmt;
}
public static function isRegistered (font:String, bold:Boolean,
italic:Boolean):TextFormat {
var name:String = t_fmt.font;
if (t_fmt.bold) {
name += "_bold";
}
if (t_fmt.italic) {
name += "_italic";
}
if (container[name]) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
}
your class:
class com.icfconsulting.objects.SimpleTextField{
public static function create(target_mc:MovieClip):TextField{
//(Note:I just want a simple text field, so values are hard coded for
now)
var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.font = "Swis";
my_fmt.color = 0x000000;
my_fmt.size = 16;
target_mc.createTextField("tf_txt",0,20,20,200,20);
target_mc.tf_txt.embedFonts = FontsLibrary.isRegistered("Swis", false, false);
..........
and in the FLA you need register formats, possible using class:
import FontsLibrary;
class TextFormatsHolder extends MovieClip {
function TextFormatsHolder () {
for (var i:String in this) {
var text_field:TextField = TextField(this[i])
FontsLibrary.registerFormat(text_field);
}
this.swapDepths(this._parent.getNextHighestDepth());
this.removeMovieClip();
}
}
add to library in FLA TextFormatsHolder class movieclip and add
textfields with embeded fonts.
don't set "export in first frame" and add this movieclip to timeline
after preloader.
it's just a principle of solution. script not checked.
--
Ivan Dembicki
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