Problem with TextFormat(). Bold text characters disapear??

[grooveepants]

I have some menu buttons that have their names loaded into them.

I am trying to make them go bold when they are pressed using this:

var txtFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
txtFormat.bold = true;

function buttonPressed(){
btnPressed._txt.setTextFormat(txtFormat)
}

The problem is that when I click on the button the text goes bold but a number of the characters disapear.

Anyone know why this is happening and what the fix is?

Cheers.

[grooveepants]

Got it sorted.

I had to put a dummy blank txt box on the screen with bold font embedded.