I have an all-AS3 Flex project in which I embed fonts. I'm trying to run this project from CS4. However, for some reason the text isn't showing up at all.
The code in the Flex AS3 looks like this:
[Embed(source='C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/ArialBD.TTF', fontWeight = 'bold', fontName='ArialBold', unicodeRange='U+0020-U+0020,U+0021-...')] //a bunch of other unicode
public static var _VerdanaFontBold:Class;
[Embed(source='C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/Arial.TTF', fontWeight = 'regular', fontName='Arial', unicodeRange='U+0020-U+0020...')] //a bunch of other unicode
public static var _VerdanaFont:Class;
And in constructor of the extended textfield in which my text appears I have:
Font.registerFont(_VerdanaFontBold);
Font.registerFont(_VerdanaFont);
I found this article on embedding metadata with Flash, but I couldn't get that to work either (I tried systemFont="Arial" as well as suggested in the comments at the bottom of that article).
So I tried commenting out the above lines and doing it another way. In CS4, I understand that I'm supposed to create a blank textfield in design mode in the FLA file. I then can select fonts to embed in the properties panel. I selected verdana (upper and lower case, punctuation, number, etc). But again when I run the app in CS4, the textfield is blank.
The fact that I'm embedding the font in a blank textfield, and not the one that's called by the document class I've set, shouldn't matter, right? -- the font should just be embedded in the swf and available for use. But it's blank.
Anyone have any ideas?
to embed a font in flash cs4 I would do the following.
in the flash environment, add a font symbol in the library panel. Make sure to click on the "export for actionsctipt button". Note the name of the font class. This will be the name of the font class you will use in your as3 code. Finally click ok and ignore the following warning message.
You can then access this font class from your as3 files. For instance
import flash.text.Font;
...
var titleField:TextField = new TextField();
var myFont:Font = new nameOfFontClass(); // see point 1
var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.font = myFont.fontName;
titleField.defaultTextFormat = format;
titleField.embedFonts = true;
hope this helps
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Is there a way to change the font of Time4J CalenderPicker in css-style?
I needed a Persian DatePicker in my program so i used Time4J CalenderPicker.
using this code i could change only the font of cells:
CalendarPicker<PersianCalendar> MyDatePicker = CalendarPicker.persianWithSystemDefaults();
MyDatePicker.setCellCustomizer(
(cell, column, row, model, date) -> {
cell.setStyle("-fx-font-family: MyFont;");
}
);
I tried this code but nothing changed:
MyDatePicker.setStyle("-fx-font-family: MyFont;");
But i want to change the font of hole CalendarPicker.
In order to apply the changes, you need to use the following code and set new css styles for calender picker and applying the customizations.
private CalendarPicker<PersianCalendar> MyDatePicker = CalendarPicker.persianWithSystemDefaults();
MyDatePicker.getStylesheets().add("/MyCSS-Style.css");
The following gif, demonstrates my customizations.
The calendar picker itself is only the combination of a text editor and a popup button (bundled in a HBox). However, the calendar view is another component which pops up if users press the button. And this component whose font you wish to change is not yet publicly accessible (with the exception of the cells via a special customizer).
I agree that this should be more flexible. Therefore I have opened a new issue to track this request for enhancement.
Feel free to fork Time4J and do your experiments and submit a pull request on time4j-github. Actually I am busy with other things but can look deeper then.
i want to display a second, not bold, text in my MessageBox, like seen for OSX here: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/NR/rdonlyres/1EA4CC0C-F0B9-45D3-BD2C-EF2C430E3FAD/15107/error2.gif
Is there a way to do this with MessageBox? If not, I would create my own Dialog, problem is that i don't know how to load the appropriate icons.
Unfortunately, MessageBox is fairly constrained in its functionality. You can get the system icon from the Display class and then set it in a label:
final Image warningImage = getShell().getDisplay().getSystemImage(SWT.ICON_WARNING);
final Label imageLabel = new Label(dialogArea, SWT.NONE);
imageLabel.setImage(image);
I'm creating an actionscript project in Flex Builder. I succeed to export from Flash a SWC file, and to use it succesfully in Flex. I have a good programming background and Flex looks very simple for me, but I have difficult times in flash.
I'm trying to achieve something that might be very simple(not for me of course):
I create a simple shape in Flash, convert it to symbol. Then I create a TextField. The I select both the elements and convert them to another symbol, and Export it as a movieclip in swc.
In flex I want to change the value from the textfield. How should I do? I'm trying to do:
var t:ExportedMC = new ExportedMC();
t....(what should I write here)
As I mentioned when I open flash I feel like an elephant in a porcelain store. I have 2 questions here:
- how to assign a name to the textfield in flash? I'm using CS4.
- how to access it as a child in flex?
When you create the symbol in Flash and export it to actionscript (in symbol properties dialog), you created a class that is accessible in Flex (after including the resultant swc in flex project library path). Any controls/shapes/symbols within that class will be contained within and created along with the containing class.
If you have any objects/smybols in that class that you would like to access/modify/whatever, you need to give them an instance name (you can do it without this step, but it's more complicated). In Flash, you edit (doubleclick) the class object in the library, then select a particular sub-object/symbol/control in the class object and give it a name by entering something under in object properties tab. That name will be included in the exported class as an property that you can access as any other class property (width,height,x,y,...).
For example, if you have a ExportedMC symbol that includes a TextField control which you gave instance name ('txtFieldName', for example), you would access it in Flex like so:
var t:ExportedMC = new ExportedMC();
t.txtFieldName.text="something";
Flex will actually be able to autocomplete the property name on the class, so you'll easily be able to know if things worked out or not.
Hope this helps.
Does anyone know if its possible to access children elements in a SWC? I have created some MC's and inside of some of these MC's I have some dynamic textFields. I export the content to a SWC and load it into my Flex project. No problem loading it or accessing the parent elements, they display fine. But I want to access the textfields nestes in the MC's and modify the text. When I debug the app, I can see the textfields as child elements. It's typed as a TextField and the Instance Name is the same as input in the Flash IDE but I cannot access it. When Flex compiles it throws an error saying it doesn't recognize the method. I've tried to insert actionscript on the timeline, linked external classes and nothing can be accessed. Does anyone know of a way to do this?
It's hard to say since you're not showing your code that fails, but I suspect you're doing:
import myswc.*;
myswc.Symbol1.myTextField.text = "Foo"
instead of
var clip:MovieClip = new myswc.Symbol1();
clip.myTextField.text = "Foo"
I just bumped into this as well, and am curious as to why you're suggesting he's NOT using the instance name since myTextField is obviously an instance name for the TextField he's using....
Is it Possible to pass MXML it self as parameter(XML param) from external application and load in Flash Player dynamically to create page. For e.g
passing xml = <mx:canvas><mx:label text="hello" /></mx:canvas> to Flex and flex should create canvas with label control in it. Is there any example related to it.
Thanx
MXML code needs to be compiled down to ActionScript before Flash Player can do anything with it. MXML is not interpreted by Flash Player at runtime.
What you are wanting to do is not possible. Like brd6644 said, mxml is compiled down to bytecode in the swf which is interpreted by the flash player. The mxml (and even actionscript) is not understood by the flash player.
That being said, there is a JSP library that you can use for dynamic MXML. See here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/server_perf_05.html
That link is old, and right now I can't seem to find an updated link, but I know the project still exists. I believe it actually ships as part of ColdFusion still. It allows you to create dynamic mxml which gets JIT compiled at the request. It of course has a substantial performance hit because of it, but if you need dynamic MXML it is an option.
I will update this comment with a better link when I find it.
Just store the properties of the
component to a XML and put a className
attribute so that if you load the XML
you can have a function to set the
attributes of the XML to the
properties of your created component
which will be determined in your
className attribute
My initial guess is no, it would still be of type "XML", and there is no "eval" in Actionscript 3. I did a quick search and am going to have to say no, this is not possible.
I have however, done something similar in an app I created.
What I did was store in a database the object type, and some properties (x,y,width,height, etc). This data is returned from a remote object call and these objects are then created at runtime, which can get a similar effect you are trying to achieve.
For example:
var resultAC:ArrayCollection = event.result as ArrayCollection;
var tmpCanvas:Canvas;
for(var i:int = 0; i < resultAC.length; i++)
{
if(resultAC.getItemAt(i).type == "Canvas")
{
tmpCanvas = new Canvas();
tmpCanvas.x = resultAC.getItemAt(i).x;
tmpCanvas.y = resultAC.getItemAt(i).y;
...
parent.addChild(tmpCanvas);
}
}