Stubborn Dynamic Text

[Mir0ku]

I'm, once again, thinking that my problem is easily solved. I'm also hoping this...
(this is in AS 3.0 btw)

I have a dynamic text field, that I am changing as need be, inside a movieclip. Theres no problem in that. Though, when I scale the movieclip, the text will not scale properly.
I, for instance, say: the_mc.scaleY = 0.5;
and the text field acts as though both its scaleY and scaleX to 0.5, thusly refusing to deform and not keeping the same scale in its movieclip.
I want it to scale appropriately. But it wont...

I'm clueless as to why. Any ideas?


Thanks in advance.


P.S. Did a test with static text. That deforms properly. Just not dynamic text....

[jweeks123]

I don't think you can scale dynamic text fields dynamically to deform them. You have to scale them proportionately.

[webdreamer]

when using the dynamic textfield did you make sure to embed the font?

[Mir0ku]

To when I first tried it, by creating it on the stage. No...

Though, now I am creating the text field dynamically. (in as3).

I would think the default font would be already embedded. I may be wrong. Please tell me if so, and what I should do to fix..



>>I don't think you can scale dynamic text fields dynamically to deform them. You have to scale them proportionately.

Damn. I know you're probably right, that's what I was thinking. But for now I wanna play optimist and try anything I can. Just in case. Thanks though. ^^;;

[jweeks123]

No Problem.

Sorry i didn't have a better answer for you.

Although I do have a theory. That being that perhaps theres a way to populate a dynamic text field and then render it as a bitmap, then it should scale. Although I'm unsure on this. May be worth looking into though.