Textfield masking does not work:S

[xzerox_xzerox]

When i try mask a textfield and then animate the mask everything goes crazy :S The text flyes around. Is this some kind of bug in km or am i doing something wrong??

[blanius]

It's a limitation of Flash .
Set the Textfield to embed Characters to true and you can then mask it.


reference:http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15945

[xzerox_xzerox]

aha thanks :D What does the "Embed Characters" function do anyway?

[blanius]

flash uses the system it's running on's fonts to display textfields. Embedding a font makes flash store the font in the compiled swf and it is used instead of the system font. Down side for most purposes is that it makes your swf a good deal bigger.