problem with dynamic text in MC

hello,

i have a ****ty layout problem

i have a site where i used as well static as dynamic text (arial font 10px) now i noticed that on the parts where i kept my text static it has a blurry view instead of a nice sharp view like in the
dynamic text fields so i figured oh well no big deal ill just make
everything dynamic text and that will be that
however the static text i want to adjust is located inside a movieclip and when i replaced the static text with dynamic text
the text was simply gone!! i can see the dynamic text field
in my fla but when i test my movie the text is nowhere to be
found this is quite annoying since part of the site text is now
nice and sharp while some parts are blurry. and i cant
convert my static text into dynamic so its conform with the
rest of the site cause the dynamic text is invisible? :confused:

Are you manipulating this movie clip in any way? Is it under a mask, tweened, rotated or whatever else?
If so, the font in textfields must be embedded. In static textfields the font outlines are automatically embedded, but in dynamic textfields, the default is that they are not embedded... So that's most probably why the text is not appearing, as the font has to be embedded. You can embed the font in a dynamic textfield, but then the font will be antialiased as the static text was. No workaround!
If you're going to manipulate text, anything but an only mask, then the font must be embedded.

yes its placed in a movieclip
and that movieclip is masked
cause i have limited space and alot
of text and some images
so youre saying that i have to embed
the font but if i do so my text will look
like the static text?

damn :( this sux

anyway thx for the reply

could there by any chance be a font
that looks like dynamic arial text
but which is actually static?

Well you could possibly use a masking movie clip (setMask), if all possible in your own setup, rather than using a masking layer, without embedding the font... But if you further try to manipulate the text, fade it, tween it... Ect... It won't work. It'll only work if simply masked...

Check the attached...

thx alot man :)

ill look at it in the morning its kinda late here already

i was thinking about something else

cant i embed html in my swf? i dont know exactly
which tags you can use for flash but i was thinking if maybe
using html would help solve the problem

Nope!
Only html formated text in textfields, no other html content within Flash.

As for the only supported tags, here they are, all 11 or so of them...

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...s/htmltext.htm

it seems ive run into a problem with my mask

for some reason my mask doesnt seem to work when
i load the swf into my main swf

:confused:
ive tested it before and then it all seemed fine
now suddenly it doesnt work anymore ive got not clue
why this happens

when i test the file the mask works fine but when its loaded
into my main swf it doesnt work
and im pretty sure i tested it before in its totallity and then it all worked fine

aargh ive looking everywhere in my fla to try and think
what might be causing for the mask not to work

but i cant find anything

Attach your .fla(s) zipped up and in a MX only format, not MX2004.

You would have to save a copy of your MX2004 .fla, (using Save as...) and changing the Document type to MX only in the Save as... window.

ok i zipped it and made it as small as possible but it still seems to be to be big for this forum damned and im affraid that if i
delete more stuff from the library you wont be able to see the problem is there any other way for me to send the file?
(500kb) heres the main fla already i deleted all the bitmaps from it since i figured that wont have anything to do with it



on the db page you have to navigate on the left and
where it says series there youll find three subsections
with each a mc that is masked when i test the dragon ball page
all by itself it seems to work fine untill its loaded into the mainswf

db page :confused:

i mean the dragon ball page

but its too big for me to attach it here i already zipped and deleted as many unnecessary stuff from my librabry as possible

buts its still 500kb (it was about 2000kb)

maybe if you have a hotmail account or something i could send the second file to ..

Check your PMs for e-mail.