is it possible to specify more than one font per textbox?

[lentil dal]

hi people

basically im using text boxes with a certain font, lets say verdana, but im not embedding it because i dont want it to be anti aliased. therefore if someone has verdana on their machine it shows up (non anti aliased) - but i would like to be able to specify a second font or even just say "verdana or any sans serif", is this possible?

thanks

[BlinkOk]

I don't know if this is what your after but there is a font called _serif that uses the first available serif font on the target machine.
Hope this helps!
BlinkOk

[lentil dal]

hi blink

i actually want to specify my desired font first and then if the user didnt have that i would be willing to use something like the _sans font in flash. thats why i was asking if its possible to specify more than one font.

[BlinkOk]

I just made a test .fla (Flash 5) using the hooge font and transfered it to another machine without the font and it automatically substituted a serif font! I dodn't have to do anything
BlinkOk

[lentil dal]

well it will always substitute it with something, i'd like to be sure that the user would see verdana, and if not then arial, and if not then any sans

[BlinkOk]

Ok i tried this and i think it's working;
I made the text Dynamic and I checked the html box. I called the textbox "text";
The in frame one actions I added;

text = "<font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">TEXT</font>";

I'm pretty sure it came up verdana but i'm a bit font blind, can't tell the difference between verdana and arial!
Hope this helps!
BlinkOk

[lentil dal]

hi blink

yes this works, but i dont want to always use a dynamic text box and specify fonts through html because i am loading a lot of the text from a database and its a bit of a pain to ensure everything gets put between a font tag, but thanks for all your help and suggestions so far.

[BlinkOk]

Probably not a solution;
But I think you can add the tags with code;

tag1 = "<font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">";
tag2 = "</font>";
text = tag1+loadedtext+tag2;

There is also a script that can examine every variable on the main timeline so you could probably do it globally with the following script;
This code will add the tags to ALL variables in _root (Main stage);

for (name in _root) { 
  if (typeof (name) == "string" && substring(name,1,3) != "tag" && substring(name,1,1) != "$" ) {
    _root[name] = tag1 + _root[name] + tag2;
  } 
}

[lentil dal]

thanks blink, i'll try using your code.