Follow-up tip: Someone asked in a previous message about the advanced
antialiasing provided in flash 8. Once you've done the steps below to create
a text field in actionscript, you can do this:
text_2.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
On 9/26/07, Sairam Suresh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
--
Sairam Suresh
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