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Embed fonts in combo box with textlayoutformat

Jun 5, 2012 1:55 PM

I've never figured out why Flash has such trouble embedding fonts in components but I can't for the life of me figure out how to with the new tlf textfields. I have my tlf text field working fine and I want to use the same format for my combo box. It works fine on the field but why not for the combo box?

 

// set format

   var myFormatBlack:TextLayoutFormat = new TextLayoutFormat();

   myFormatBlack.color = 0x990000;

   myFormatBlack.fontFamily = "Doctor Soos Bold";

   myFormatBlack.fontSize = 24;

  

   type_cb.textField.setStyle("embedFonts", true);

   type_cb.textField.setStyle("textFormat", myFormatBlack);

  

   // add status text box

   var status_txt = new TLFTextField();

   content_layer.addChild(status_txt);

   status_txt.x = 50;

   status_txt.y = 500;

   status_txt.width = 900

   status_txt.height = 24;

   status_txt.multiline = false;

   status_txt.selectable = false;

   status_txt.border = true;

   status_txt.text = "Testing!";

  

   // add text flow to text box

   var status_flow = status_txt.textFlow;

   status_flow.hostFormat = myFormatBlack;

   status_flow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers();

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  • esdebon
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    1. esdebon,
    Jun 5, 2012 2:01 PM   in reply to C-Rock
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    To embed fonts in CheckBox component, ComboBox component, and a Slider component, requires that a font symbol with the linkage class name of Font1 (or whatever) exists in the library.

     

    http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/embedding_fonts.html

     
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    2. C-Rock,
    Jun 9, 2012 9:54 AM   in reply to esdebon
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    Unfortunately that does NOT work. Even when you paste the exact code into a class it does not work. I dug into some old projects and found this code that works perfectly. I just created a custom class and imported it from my doc class so every combo box in the project followed the same style:

     

    upFormat = new TextFormat();

       upFormat.font = new DoctorSoos().fontName;

       upFormat.color = 0x666666;

       upFormat.size = 16;

       upFormat.letterSpacing = .5;

       StyleManager.setStyle("upFormat",upFormat);

      

       overFormat = new TextFormat();

       overFormat.font = new DoctorSoos().fontName;

       overFormat.color = 0x666666;

       overFormat.size = 16;

       overFormat.letterSpacing = .5;

       StyleManager.setStyle("overFormat",overFormat);

      

       StyleManager.setComponentStyle(ComboBox,"textFormat",StyleManager.get Style("upFormat"));

       StyleManager.setComponentStyle(TextInput,"textFormat",StyleManager.ge tStyle("upFormat"));

       StyleManager.setComponentStyle(CellRenderer,"textFormat",StyleManager .getStyle("overFormat"));

     
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