[Swftools-common] tip for embedding fonts and modifying text with actionscript

[Sairam Suresh]

For those bashing their heads against dynamically adding/modifying text
blocks in actionscript with fonts embedded by swfc, here's a snippet of code
that might help you out:

.flash bbox=420x240
   .font helvetica-light "helvetica-light.swf"

   .sprite layer1
    .action:
      this.createTextField("text_1",1,37,41,240,44);
      text_1.multiline = false;
      text_1.wordWrap = false;
      text_1.border = false;

      format_1 = new TextFormat();
      format_1.align="left";
      format_1.font="helvetica-light";
      format_1.size=22;
      format_1.color = 0xFFFFFF;

      text_1.embedFonts = true;
      text_1.text = _root.text1;
      text_1.setTextFormat(format_1);
    .end
   .end

   .put layer1

.end


The resulting .swf can be called with the urlencoded parameter text1 like
so:

http://mydomain.com/test.swf?text1=blah+blah+blah

Of course, this seems like the long way around when swfc provides most of
that functionality for you, but when I was writing a function in
actionscript that needed a particular embedded font, without the
text_1.embedFonts=true; line I was always unsuccessful.

Hopefully this will save you some time if you're in the same boat.