Thanks,

Yes, css files are embedded in the application. It is a flash application. They are embedded using the [Embed] metatag.

moccamaximum wrote:

 

After some research I have an idea what you are hinting at: You are using this class to parse css files that you use inside your flash file to style Textfields applicationwide. And you want the font-family property to have a generic name that can be linked to different font assets? Is that correct?

Yes, that is essentially right, if I understand you.

However your solution doesn't work for me. I cannot refer to GenericFontName() in any way inside the stylesheet that I know of, without in some way modifying the stylesheet at runtime. If you trace embeddedFont.fontName, it will just output "Arial". In other words, you need to specify Arial, not GenericFontName, as the font inside the stylesheet.

If you load in another .swf file with the Times New Roman characterset with linkage "GenericFontName", then you must change your .css files and tell them to use "Times New Roman" font instead of "Arial" to use the embedded font. This is the problem I've been referring to.

I already know how to tell a TextField to use the font from GenericFontName class inside actionscript. I want to know how to do it just using css and just using TextFields created in symbols in the Flash Professional library, and if this is possible, so that: a) for TextFields created in a library symbol I do not need to modify them at runtime and b) my style data is easily storable and editable entirely inside a css stylesheet without needing to specifically tell the TextField what font to use in actionscript.

I am sorry if this doesn't make any sense... I am not sure of a better way to explain it. My question isn't about how css files , or StyleSheet objects, or how to change the TextFormat of a TextField at runtime to use my embedded font. It is about how to emebed fonts with a fontName specified by me. The reason is because I think this is the most convenient solution to being able to swap fonts in and out with other fonts. But, I suspect this isn't possible.

You did give me an idea though, which is that I could make a util function to physically change the text of the StyleSheet to replace a string like "ApplicationFont" with whatever GenericFontName.fontName is, so the css will be created and edited to use generic names which are modified to what they need to be at runtime.

This won't help me use these generic fonts in a TextField added to a library symbol, however, which was actually the main thing I was after because I don't want to need to modify every single TextField inside a library symbol.

Okay, the solution to this problem is to use the Embed tag rather than the library to create the font assets. The Embed tag allows you to set the fontName of an embedded font. For example, place this in frame 1 of the font .swf file:

[Embed(systemFont="Century Gothic",

     fontName = "ApplicationFont",

     mimeType = "application/x-font",

     fontWeight = "normal",

     fontStyle = "normal",

     advancedAntiAliasing = "true",

     embedAsCFF = "false")]

const REGULAR:Class;

[Embed(systemFont="Century Gothic",

     fontName = "ApplicationFont",

     mimeType = "application/x-font",

     fontWeight = "bold",

     fontStyle = "normal",

     advancedAntiAliasing = "true",

     embedAsCFF = "false")]

const BOLD:Class;

and then when the .swf is loaded by the Loader class, register the fonts:

var clip:MovieClip = this.content as MovieClip;

Font.registerFont(clip.REGULAR);

Font.registerFont(clip.BOLD);

And there you go, the font will have the fontName "ApplicationFont", and using "ApplicationFont" as the font in css will use the embedded font.

I am still not sure how to tell library assets containing TextFields to use this font, short of adding actionscript in the symbol or changing the font of the TextField when the asset is instantiated (both of which I really want to avoid). Adobe still refuses to allow you to specify a css file to apply to a TextField inside their authoring environment for some unfathomable reason...

Thanks

Well, fortunately I made a Wrapper class which wraps display assets which actual functional objects by setting the asset to a _view property and adding it as a child of the Wrapper. I suppose I'll just change my protected setView method so it iterates through all children of the view asset and sets a stylesheet for any TextField found.

Thanks