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problem in rotating dynamic text field

Mar 29, 2010 7:53 AM

Hi All,

 

In an application, i am creating dynamic text Field and then try to rotate it by using _rotation method but it become invisible. Please answer if anyone know anything about it.

1197 Views   7 Replies   Latest reply: kglad, Aug 4, 2010 6:30 AM
 
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  • kglad
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    1. kglad,
    Mar 29, 2010 8:25 AM   in reply to amitKumarKanda
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    you need to embed the font.


     
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    2. amitKumarKanda,
    Mar 30, 2010 1:20 AM   in reply to kglad
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    Thanks for your reply kglad.com

     

    yes, you are right. but i have already tried this. Following is the sample of code that i am using.

     

    _root.createTextField("txt",_root.getNextHighestDepth(),50,50,50,50);
    _root.txt.embedFonts=true;
    _root.txt.text="hello";
    _root.txt._rotation=20;

     

    even i have try to do this by another way also in which i have

    1. plece a dynamic text field in a movieClip.

    2. embed the fonts from the text field properties.

    3. Then attach the movie clip on the _root.

    4. Then i have given the rotation to the attached movieclip
    this solve my problem to a large extent. but when i assign textFormat to the textField it again disappear.

     

    Please let me know if there is any other solution for this.

     
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    3. kglad,
    Mar 30, 2010 6:41 AM   in reply to amitKumarKanda
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    if you don't see your text, you're not embedding the font.

     

    when you use actionscript to embed a font, you need to have the font in your library with a linkage id, create a textformat instance and assign its font property and finally assign the textformat to your textfield.  for example


    _root.createTextField("txt",_root.getNextHighestDepth(),50,50,50,50);
    _root.txt.embedFonts=true;
    _root.txt.text="hello";
    _root.txt._rotation=20;

    var tfor:TextFormat=new TextFormat();

    tfor.font="yourfontslinkageid";  // <- linkage id of font in your library

     

    _root.txt.setTextFormat(tfor);

     
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    4. djaynickyt,
    Aug 2, 2010 6:35 AM   in reply to amitKumarKanda
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    I'm having the same problem, but now understand why this happens.

     

    As a test if you create a dynamic text box and place a var inside - it works.

     

    Then if you manually rotate the text field it can't see the text anymore. Or when you dynamicaly rotate etc.

     

    A fix will be to place the text field inside a movieclip, then rotate the movieclip with the text field inside.

     
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    5. kglad,
    Aug 2, 2010 6:37 AM   in reply to djaynickyt
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    that's no fix.   you need to embed the font.  that's the fix.

     
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    6. djaynickyt,
    Aug 4, 2010 1:08 AM   in reply to kglad
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    Sorry, your right.

     

    Embed the font, it works fine now.

     
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    Aug 4, 2010 6:30 AM   in reply to djaynickyt
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    you're welcome.

     
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