Missing embedded font

[m_andrews808]

ello


I have a dynamic textfield which is assigned a variable to show a timer during runtime. The font of the textfield isn't a system font so I've embedded the numeric characters.

As soon as I embed the characters the text disappears, regardless if I embed just the numeric set or all characters. If I remove the embedding the text reappears straight away.

Any ideas what is going on?

[cancerinform]

Have you created a new font symbol in the library?

http://www.flashscript.biz/MX2004/embedfont/textembedmask.html

[m_andrews808]

nope, I'm not creating the textfield programatically, I'm adding it in during design and specifying what characters to embed.

I've done this a million times before and never had this problem, but then I've not been working with flash 8 for long