Some text features in Flash Player 8
posted by Tinic Uro at 3:38 PM
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
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- Name: Tinic Uro
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
I currently work as an engineer at Adobe on the Flash Player. My focus there is mainly on graphics, video, audio and last but not least text.
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6 Comments:
nice! hooray!
hey there TInic!!!! long time no see. hope you are well. finally, real dynamic text feilds ;)
Does this mean that the webbot's could now read the text in a .swf file?
I like it.
I sent this to whomever reads the player beta submissions, but no idea if it'll end up anywhere useful. I really, really hope y'all will follow the system-wide prefs for subpixel rendering in the flash player. It only takes a few lines of code (on OS X, anyway):
CFNumberRef val = CFPreferencesCopyAppValue(CFSTR("AppleFontSmoothing"), kCFPreferencesAnyApplication);
int num;
CFNumberGetValue(val, kCFNumberIntType, &num);
and then you won't be cheesing off all of us who get headaches trying to read text with rainbow fringes and have turned it off in system prefs.
Please let me know if there's someone else I can nag about this, or if there's any more help I can give.
Thanks!
-Dave <dave@opaque.net>
Hi Tinic,
The getTextFormat method of the TextField when used with no parameters should return an object which has properties defined that are common throughout the text.
When a textfield (tf) is constructed that contains bold/italic in additional to regular text (HTML text must be ON for this), the font property of the TextFormat returned by tf.getTextFormat() is null in FP8, and is defined correctly in FP7 and 6.
Follow this link for a code example...
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1664550&postcount=47
Does Flash respect document embedding permissions? ie. if the font was set to "print and preview" embedding by its creator would Flash respect this and lock the document for editing?
Si
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