using embedded fonts loaded from swf

[raoul]

I searched around, tried several things but I cannot get this to work.

My current approach:

- Created a seperate swf with 2 fonts in the library, linkage "_Arial" and "_ArialBold". "_ArialBold" has the style set to "bold". On the first frame I have:

Font.registerFont(_Arial);
Font.registerFont(_ArialBold);

When I load the swf in my main application and itterate through the list of available fonts the 2 new fonts are returned, but fontName outputs "Arial" in both cases not the linkage name.

textformat.font = "Arial";

This works fine, but I can't figure out how to assign the embedded font "_ArialBold" to a textfield. How is this done?

Thanks,
Raoul

[jAQUAN]

I normally use TextFormat objects to decorate text. TextFields properties really aren't suited for it.

First you have to create a new instance of your font, then assign it to the .font property of a new text format.

I would change the linkage class name to proper class name format like Arial and ArialBold

Then create the instances

var _arial = new Arial();
var _arialBold = new ArialBold();

Then create the textformats:

var arialFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
arialFormat.font = _arial.fontName;

]var arialBoldFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
arialBoldFormat.font = _arialBold.fontName;

Then assign them to text fields

myTextField:TextField = new TextField();
myTextField.text = "Some Text";
myTextField.defaultTextFormat = arialFormat;

[raoul]

Thanks jAQUAN!

Is the setup of my swf correct if I use this approach?

Because now I get the error:

"1180: Call to a possibly undefined method ArialClass"

on the line:

var _arial = new ArialClass();

(I changed the class names to ArialClass and ArialBoldClass)

On the other hand this class is not available yet as it is part of the at runtime loaded swf so I understand why this error is raised. But how do you avoid this and have the swf correctly compiled?