Bold font in Flash not showing in SWF

Question

Hiya,
Sorry if this is a dumb question - I'm not an expert with Flash.
I'm adapting an off the shelf mp3 player and would like to make some text bold - namely [see: http://www.stevedrake.net/music_09] the text that shows the current artist/song at the top.
This is dynamic text from an XML file. I've embedded the fonts [Verdana regular and bold - OpenType] in Flash CS5 but the bold won't display even though the special characters do display [Jónsi].
Ta
steve

Answer 1

I know what you mean, the outlines embedded should be thicker because we "think" it's embedding the fonts as 2 separate classes. I don't think it's this simple internally. You can see in the font manager it groups fonts variants (regular/bold/italic all under the same font name). Internally it's actually keeping track.
This is actually behavior I don't mind. My example was more complex than it needed to be. I like when fonts just map properly and actually all you need to do is set the .bold flag and it will automatically use the bold version of the font that's embedded. That tells me they're internally linked.
e.g.:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import fl.text.TLFTextField;
import flash.text.AntiAliasType;
import flash.text.Font;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
var useBold:Boolean = false;
// fonts
var gRegFont:Font = new GRegular();
// handler
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, handleClick);
function handleClick(e:MouseEvent):void
    useBold = !useBold;
    // fix Flash's desire to mass-apply, set twice
    tf.bold = false;
    myTLFTextField.setTextFormat(tf, 0, 16);
   // now handle bolding
    tf.bold = useBold;
    myTLFTextField.setTextFormat(tf, 17, myTLFTextField.length);
// TLFTextField init
var myTLFTextField:TLFTextField = new TLFTextField();
addChild(myTLFTextField);
myTLFTextField.x = 10;
myTLFTextField.y = 10;
myTLFTextField.width = 400;
myTLFTextField.height = 100;
myTLFTextField.embedFonts = true;
myTLFTextField.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
myTLFTextField.text = "This is my text: This is affected by format";
var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat(gRegFont.fontName,16,0x0,false);
myTLFTextField.setTextFormat(tf,0,myTLFTextField.length);
I don't even need to set the .font property at all. Internally it's linked and that works fine. I'm not even instantiating the bolded version, it's precompiled and available. I also forgot to set embedFont=true and some antialiasing but it works if you do or don't anyhow.
Edit:
Haha I see you were editing your post too. I think we're both on the same page seeing we said the same exact thing. Although I do need to set the non-bold TextFormat like I did setting from char 0-16 or the entire TextField (or TLFTextField) goes to bold. Setting both formats every time fixes the issue. I don't even need to keep setting a font, it's already saved in the formatting object. I just turn bold on and off.