Embed Fonts in Dynamic Text Fields

Hey, I am relatively new around here although I've been a
member for years. I am just now starting to utilize my account. I
do have a question in regards to embedding fonts in Flash 8. I have
read up on this numerous places and haven't been able to find a
solution that works for me, whether this my user error or not is
still TBD.
I am loading text from a XML document into Flash dynamic text
fields. I need to be using a handwritting font for these text
fields. After embedding the handwritten font they are not
displaying in my dynamic fields but are displaying in my static
text fields that am I also using on the site. I am controlling my
dynamic text fields w/ an external stylesheet. I believe I must do
something "additional" for these dynamic text fields but haven't
figured out what that is, any help anyone can offer is much
appreciated! Thanks.

floateronline wrote:
> Hey, I am relatively new around here although I've been
a member for years. I
> am just now starting to utilize my account. I do have a
question in regards to
> embedding fonts in Flash 8. I have read up on this
numerous places and haven't
> been able to find a solution that works for me, whether
this my user error or
> not is still TBD.
>
> I am loading text from a XML document into Flash dynamic
text fields. I need
> to be using a handwritting font for these text fields.
After embedding the
> handwritten font they are not displaying in my dynamic
fields but are
> displaying in my static text fields that am I also using
on the site. I am
> controlling my dynamic text fields w/ an external
stylesheet. I believe I must
> do something "additional" for these dynamic text fields
but haven't figured out
> what that is, any help anyone can offer is much
appreciated! Thanks.
the question is a bit too general. There are many ways to
approach it, from copies
of text fields with that font off stage, to embedded outlines
and linkage in the library.
My guess is that somewhere on the way you did not fully
complete the outline embed options.
Either done incorrectly or you miss some action.
Mind to post detail explanation how you embed the outlines?
Best if you post an example
file for us to check.
Best Regards
Urami
"Never play Leap-Frog with a Unicorn."
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If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

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I am having trouble embedding a font in my Flash file. I have the font in my library. I have the text field selected to that font with the * next to it.
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vid_title_txt.embedFonts = true;
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I am in AS2.
I followed these steps.
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Can anyone tell me how I can embed multiple font outlines in
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I was using the Character button in the properties manager
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ggaarde wrote:
> Thanks Urami
> Tried your method and it does not work for me.
> I put 3 dynamic text fields in the first frame of the
movie. Set them up to
> where one is regular, one is bold and one is italic
Helvetica.
Weird, it works for me on first go, always had in fact :)
Show you an example, try to compare to your file see if you
missed anything accidentally.
http://flashfugitive.com/stuff/font/text.swf
text file
http://flashfugitive.com/stuff/font/text.txt
fla
http://flashfugitive.com/stuff/font/text.fla
Best Regards
Urami
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If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

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Hi,
First u must create the new font in right click on library then choose the font.
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I'm stuck in Flash8 land. Mostly because I use mProjector and
MDM Zinc to extend flash projectors and neither support AS3
correctly to date. That said..
Is a Flash8 SWF capable of using fonts embedded in "other"
SWFs? I realize this is an ongoing difficulty and a well known area
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far in linking have succeeded or failed in various ways, but never
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into main.fla's library. In looking at the linkage, I see it
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import com.google.maps.LatLng;
import com.google.maps.Map;
import com.google.maps.MapEvent;
import com.google.maps.MapType;
import com.distriqt.gmaps.kml.utils.*;
import com.greensock.*;
import com.greensock.easing.*;
import com.greensock.TweenLite;
import flash.geom.Point;
import com.greensock.plugins.*;
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import com.google.maps.controls.NavigationControl;
import com.google.maps.controls.MapTypeControl;
import com.google.maps.controls.OverviewMapControl;
import com.google.maps.overlays.GroundOverlay;
import com.google.maps.overlays.GroundOverlayOptions;
import com.google.maps.LatLng;
import com.google.maps.LatLngBounds;
import com.google.maps.MapMouseEvent;
import com.google.maps.controls.*;
import com.google.maps.overlays.Marker;
import com.google.maps.InfoWindowOptions;
import com.google.maps.overlays.MarkerOptions;
import com.anttikupila.utils.JPGSizeExtractor;
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import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
import flash.events.Event;
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import flash.events.Event;
import fl.events.ScrollEvent;
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[Embed(source="ICONS/BLOG_BLACK.png")]var blogIcon:Class;
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map.addEventListener(MapEvent.MAP_READY, createmarkers);
map.addEventListener(MapEvent.MAP_READY, createMarkerArrays);
map.addEventListener(MapEvent.MAP_READY, createPhotoPingers);
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map.disableContinuousZoom();
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//Marker options for a blog piece
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blogMarkerOptions.icon = new photoIcon();
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pntloader.load(new URLRequest("map_feed.xml"));
// create an array of jpgs to index
var JPGIndexArray:Array = new Array();
//Create array that will be populated with points
var pointsArray:Array = new Array();
//Load the XML
function loadpntXML(e:Event):void {
 pntxml=new XML(e.target.data);
 pntxml.ignoreWhite = true;
 for (var i:int = 0; i< pntxml.row.length(); i++){
 pointsArray[i]="mrk"+i;
 JPGIndexArray[i]="JPG"+i;
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//Create the markers and add them to the map
function createmarkers(event:Event):void
 for (var i:Number = 0; i < pntxml.row.length(); i++) {
 var markerOptions:MarkerOptions = new MarkerOptions();
 if (pntxml.row[i].TYPE=="PHOTO")
 markerOptions.icon = new photoIcon();
 markerOptions.tooltip = "Photo";
 markerOptions.hasShadow=false;
 else if(pntxml.row[i].TYPE=="BLOG")
 markerOptions.icon = new blogIcon();
 markerOptions.tooltip = "Blog Entry";
 markerOptions.hasShadow=false;
 else
 null
 pointsArray[i] = new Marker(new LatLng(pntxml.row[i].LAT,pntxml.row[i].LONG),markerOptions);
 markerA.push(pointsArray[i]);
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je.addEventListener( JPGSizeExtractor.PARSE_COMPLETE, jeLoadHandler );
je.addEventListener( JPGSizeExtractor.PARSE_FAILED, jeParseFailed );
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 for (var k:Number=0; k <pntxml.row.length(); k++){
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 imageWidths.push(e.currentTarget.width);
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 trace( "Parse failed" );
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//Create blank array for use in indexing
var markerA:Array=[];
//VAR FOR USE IN INDEXING CALLED MARKER
var pointindex=null;
//INDEX CALLED MARKER POINT XML RECORD
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 pointindex=genIndexPos(markerA,Marker(e.currentTarget));
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function genIndexPos(a:Array,e:Marker):uint{
 for(var i:uint=0;i<a.length;i++){
 if(a[i]==e){
 return i;
 return null;
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this.addChild(scrollPane);
scrollPane.setSize(255,300);
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scrollPane.y=-200;
scrollPane.alpha=0;
scrollPaneContent.mouseEnabled=false;
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 TweenLite.to(scrollPane, .5,{autoAlpha:0,overwrite:true});
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spHeader.forDrag.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, function (e:MouseEvent):void
 scrollPane.stopDrag();
spHeader.forDrag.buttonMode=true;
spHeader.forDrag.useHandCursor=true;
spHeader.width=300;
scrollPane.source = scrollPaneContent;
scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneText.autoSize='left';
scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneImage.autoSize='center';
scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneImage.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.CENTER;
scrollPaneContent.mouseEnabled=false;
scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneText.condenseWhite = true;
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trace('Scrollpane content loaded');
function reportProgress(e:ProgressEvent):void {
 trace(e.bytesLoaded + " loaded out of " + e.bytesTotal);
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 scrollPane.setSize(300,(contentHeight+15));
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 if(imgWidth>=imgHeight){
 var imgSource:String = "<img src="+"'"+calledMarkerContent+"'"+"width='"+250+"'"+"height='"+150+"'"+"/>";
 var calledImgHgh=160;
 else
 var imgSource:String = "<img src="+"'"+calledMarkerContent+"'"+"width='"+110+"'"+"height='"+167+"'"+"/>";
 var calledImgHgh=177;
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 scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneImage.htmlText=imgSource;
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 //add the header to the SP and scale accordingly
 scrollPane.addChild(spHeader);
 spHeader.x=-1;
 spHeader.y=1;
 spHeader.width=299;
 if (txtHeight>=250){
 scrollPane.setSize(300,275);
 scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneText.htmlText=""+calledMarkerDescription+" ";
 if (txtHeight<=5){
 scrollPane.setSize(300,200);
 scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneText.htmlText=""+calledMarkerDescription;
 if (txtHeight>=5){
 scrollPane.setSize(300,275);
 scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneText.htmlText=""+calledMarkerDescription+" ";
 // CREATE TEMP VARIABLES FOR POSITIONING AND PLACE DYNAMIC TEXT
 var scTextY=scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneText.y;
 var scImageY=scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneImage.y;
 var scTextHeight=scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneText.height;
 scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneText.y=scImageY+calledImgHgh;
 //update the scrollpane and reset the scrollbar
 scrollPane.update();
 scrollPane.verticalScrollPosition=(0);
 scrollPane.verticalScrollBar.height=270;
 scrollPane.verticalScrollBar.x=281;
 scrollPane.verticalScrollBar.y=3;
spHeader.alpha=0;
this.addChild(spHeader);
var photoMarkersArray=new Array();
var photoMarkersIndexArray=new Array();
//CREATE ARRAY OF PHOTO MARKERS
function createMarkerArrays(e:Event):void{
for (var j:int=0; j<pntxml.row.(TYPE=="PHOTO").ID.length(); j++){
 var tempMarkerIndex=pntxml.row.(TYPE=="PHOTO").ID[j];
 var tempMarkerRef="mrk"+tempMarkerIndex;
 photoMarkersArray.push(tempMarkerRef);
 photoMarkersIndexArray.push(tempMarkerIndex);

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Hi,
I'm quite new to ActionScript and would be grateful for any help here.
I want to load text into a dynamic text field (called 'about_tab') using a class depending on the language selected (by clicking on a flag icon) by the user.
I managed to get this to work when the ActionScript was written directly in the timeline, but am having problems with doing the same thing via a class.
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package
import flash.display.SimpleButton;
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import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.events.Event;
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Thanks for any help.

Hello flashrocket!
I'm also new to AS3 and I've just started using external classes and I think I know what you should do to put your code to work.
Instead of using the text field you created inside your flash file, why don't you use the "TextField" class to create an instance of this object? It's the exact same thing as when you create and instantiate a new text field inside Flash.
First, import flash.text.*; (includes classes like TextField, TextFieldAutoSize, TextFormat, TextFormatAlign, etc)
Than you just have to create a var like
public var about_tab : TextField;
or
public var about_tab : TextField = new TextField();
then, to adjust the properties of this tab you use dotsyntax as if it where on your stage like:
about_tab.x = 50; about_tab.alpha = .5; etc...
you can even create a function to "config your textField"
 private function createAndConfigTextField() : void {
 about_tab = new TextField(); //you only need this line if you
 // only typed something like "public var about_tab:TextField;
 // if instead you used "public var about_tab:TextField = new TextField(); outside
 // this function, just skip this first line because you already have an instance of
 // text field named "about_tab"...
 about_tab.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.CENTER;
 about_tab.background = true;
 about_tab.border = true;
 var aboutTextFormat : TextFormat = new TextFormat();
 format.font = "Arial";
 format.color = 0x000000;
 format.size = 11;
 format.bold = true;
 format.align = TextFormatAlign.CENTER;
 about_tab.defaultTextFormat = aboutTextFormat;
 addChild(about_tab);
This is just an example of what you can do... I hope you get it... let me know if you have any doubt...

Auto scrolling dynamic text field(news ticker)

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Does anyone know how to make a scrollable dynamic text field
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Thanks in advance for your help.
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I found this:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic_scroller.htm
I copied the actual scroller and put it in my .fla and it
worked! Now if I can only figure out links in XML...

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