Embedded font and Combobox

Question

Hello All,
Scenario of my application: Application have combobox filled with fonts list. When user select font from combobox. Application load font swf from server and apply to text.
I have embedded fonts in SWF using css.
@font-face {   
    src: url("assets/fonts/arial.ttf");   
    fontFamily: "Arial";   
    fontWeight: "normal";   
    embedAsCFF: true;   
here is code snippet to load font from server.
var eventDesi:IEventDispatcher = styleManager.loadStyleDeclarations2(fontStyleName.@swfURL);
            eventDesi.addEventListener(StyleEvent.ERROR,function(event:StyleEvent):void{
                Alert.show("error while downloading font " + fontStyleName.@name);
            eventDesi.addEventListener(StyleEvent.COMPLETE,function(event:StyleEvent):void{
                fontStyleName.@isDownloaded == "true";
               if(functionToCall != null)
                    functionToCall.call();   
Problem:
When I select font arial form combobox all list of fonts,tool tips are get disappear. My primary exploration is combobox has arial font and I am loading again arial and registering it. This may be the cause.
Is there any way to set embeded font to any control?
Thanks,
Vikram

Answer 1

Hi,
Follow this tutorial and use the code below..
http://www.designscripting.com/2011/06/as3-combobox-font-embedding-problem-flash-cs5/
var arial:Font = new ArialFont();
var myFormatBlack:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormatBlack.font = arial.fontName;
myFormatBlack.size = 18;
myFormatBlack.color = 0x000000;
myComboBox.textField.setStyle("embedFonts", true);
myComboBox.textField.setStyle("textFormat", myFormatBlack);
myComboBox.dropdown.setRendererStyle("embedFonts", true);
myComboBox.dropdown.setRendererStyle("textFormat", myFormatBlack);
myComboBox.setStyle("embedFonts", true);
myComboBox.setStyle("textFormat", myFormatBlack);
myComboBox.prompt = "Select State";
myComboBox.width = 248;
myComboBox.height = 25;
myComboBox.x = 100
myComboBox.y = 100
myComboBox.setStyle("textPadding", 1);