I have an input box that I want to change the font of from Actionscript. The font value will be retrieved from ASP, but I can deal with that part. I CAN'T just set the value of the textbox equal to an HTML string containing the font because I will later retrieve the string, and don't want HTML in it.
So basically, I need a way to set the font of a textbox to that of a value stored in a variable. Is this possible or will I be forced to do the loadVariables + HTML route?
What about using the font symbol functionality? It's not something i have used yet but plan to in my next project or two and i have thought a bit about so this is blue sky guessing, not hard fact. I believe you can define a font as a font symbol in a similar way to using a symbol from a shared library (it is not embeded in the movie but sits in another movie with other shared library items). Then, depending on what variable values are sent to your main movie from your ASP, you can define what font symbol to load from the shared library.
Ah, that won't work either. This Flash movie is for a frontend to an app that is mostly backend based. Since I am not the only user, I cannot just embed fonts like this, fonts used could be anything that the software user chooses (any system font).
Basically I am wondering if there is a property such as TextBoxName.Font or something that would allow me to do this.
Ah, i know what your aiming at now but i don't know any way of doing it in flash 5. Basically you're wanting to allow the user to define the font used in a text box in a flash movie from their own system fonts. Is that right? I suppose it is similar to problem of dynamically inserting images into a flash movie on request but with fonts, a bit of a weak suggestion but maybe perhaps Flash 6 could help out?
Originally posted by appy Ah, i know what your aiming at now but i don't know any way of doing it in flash 5. Basically you're wanting to allow the user to define the font used in a text box in a flash movie from their own system fonts. Is that right? I suppose it is similar to problem of dynamically inserting images into a flash movie on request but with fonts, a bit of a weak suggestion but maybe perhaps Flash 6 could help out?
No, I think he just wants to be able to change the font used in the Input box simply as you would do it in HTML but using the method he defined in his first post.
No, I think he just wants to be able to change the font used in the Input box simply as you would do it in HTML but using the method he defined in his first post.
Glen
Yeah, thats all I want. I know that if I set the textbox to accept HTML that I can set the textbox variable to <font face="somefont" size="10">, but I do not want to do that unless their is no other way. Are there any Flash gurus out there that know how to do this?
As far as I know, there's no other way...maybe something to put on the Flash 7 wishlist? I will be really surprised if they would already have this feature in the upcoming version (6).
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