Flash :: Special Fonts In Flash MX

How To Use Special Fonts.
Hello,

I am trying use a special non-windows font called "7-Segment" which replicates the characters in the standard 7-segment format.

I followed this link
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowled...fm?id=tn_14786 to get it working. I got this info from a previous thread.

this is what I observe. I can create a textbox and in the Properties tab i see the Font type '7 Segment'. When I create a text box and manually type in the letters I see the 7 segment format.

The problem arises when I want to use the Action Script 2.0 to dynamically display the text in the Textfields.

If anyone has a way to outwit the problem, it will be highly appreciated.

Regards,
George

Why Can't I Use Special Fonts In Preloader
hi,

im having trouble with embedding a specific font in my preloader.
flash only lets me use device fonts (arial, courier etc.), if i try to embed the characters, it wont show anything at all in the loader.

1) html
2) source fla

thanks for any replies guys!

Text Scroll With Special Fonts
I am making a text scroll. I am using a pixel font and I want to make sure the text is clear and crisp. I Put the text in the actionscript.It works great.

I am afraid if the person viewing the page doesn't have the font on thier computer, they won't see it. Is that correct? If I scroll a MC the fonts will be fuzzy. I can't do the HTML way becuase it won't support the font.

Mark

About Using Special Fonts Within Dynamic Txt Scrollers
Ok..still unsure about this so i have to clear it up..
Im doing a site at the moment and on the profiles section i have alot of text that is in a standard MX text scroller. The text is dynamic text format..
Anyhow i am using a non standard web font..so i know that if viewers on the web dont have that font it wont show up..

But what about this feature on the library tab.. "NEW FONT"
would this solve my problem..does this get added then to the final swf file??

I know i would not have probs if i was using Static text..but whats the case with Dynamic text then?

If someone can kindly help clear up this mystery for me..

cheers!

chris

Embed Fonts Problem - Special Chars
Hi,

i`ve got a problem, a can`t find a solution to embed Slovak characters with actionscript. A want to display text what contains variable text_to_display. The text displays, but the Slovak characers don`t. I`ve tried with '.embeddedcharacters' param but , it`s dosn`t work to.

Thanks in advace for your help,

Andriska80

Attach Code

text_to_display = "Å¡tandardnÃ© izolaÄnÃ© dvojsklo";
_root.createTextField("text_field",_root.getNextHighestDepth(),0,0,236,20);

var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.color = 0x999999;
my_fmt.font = "my_font"; //exported in library fontFace:Tahoma, size:11px
my_fmt.align = "center";

_root.text_field.multiline = true;
_root.text_field.wordWrap = true;
_root.text_field.textType = "dynamic";
_root.text_field.autoSize = true;
_root.text_field.selectable = false;
_root.text_field.text = text_to_display;
_root.text_field.embedFonts = true;
_root.text_field.embeddedcharacters = "Å¡ÄÃ©Ä¾Å¡ÄÅ¥Å¾Ã½Ã¡";
_root.text_field.embedRanges = "1|2|3|4";
_root.text_field.setTextFormat(my_fmt);

Show Special Fonts And Images In List Box AS3 And Text Box
Is there a way to show special fonts (fonts made) and images in the list box component coming from XML?

Is there a way to set individual text items in list box as italic and bold? We can set the whole list box as italic and bold but does not want to do individual. This also comes from XML
i.e. first word is A, second word is Abba and needs to be italic and bold.

We have a text box that has a main word with an active links to subword under main word, but can not get the link to the subword to word, which can be pulled from anywhere in the xml files which are rather large. Can anyone help there?

Thanks.

Pls Help On How To Make Special Fonts Appear In Dynamic Text Field
hi! I was able to successfully make links out of captions from an xml file thru reference
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2089357 given by a helpful member Stringy. Thanks stringy. It worked ok. My problem now is that I wanted to use a special font (frenchscript mt) for the captions in the dynamic text field. I've done all kinds of embedding inc. the new font symbol embedding method but nothing works. I test if embedding was done by removing the font from my fonts folder. But when I do this, the captions become Arial I even tried to put a plain dynamic text field on stage using the special font, but the same thing happens when I remove the special font from the fonts folder. What can I do to make sure that even users without this font will be able to view the caption in the special font??? Pls help, thanks very much

Flash Fonts And Server Side Fonts
Hi,

I'm creating an application where users upload their images with flash and edit them. We are placing text over the images, and we allow the users to choose the fonts in which they write them.

The co-ordinates are saved to the application database and the server side code dynamically writes the text on top of the images.

I know in order for the server side application to write in the selected font it must be installed in the server. I am wondering what my limitations on fonts that appear in flash are ?

How can I increase the number of fonts that will function on both the flash application and the server side application? The application is being developed in as 2.0, but could be moved to 3.0 if this helps.

Thanks very much for any assistance!
mike123

Special XML In Flash
Hi guys...look at what I'm trying to do http://www.premier.tv/ using 2 of Lee's tutorials video_basics_8 and xml_video_playlist

Here is the xml file I've createdCode:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<videos>
<video url="cristiano ronaldo.flv" desc="Cristiano Ronaldo" img scr="cristiano ronaldo.jpg" caption="Cristiano Ronaldo Soccer Tricks" links="World Soccer Tricks"/>
<video url="lord of the ring.flv" desc="Lord Of The Ring" img scr="lord of the ring.jpg" caption="Lord of the Ring Trilogy" links="Lord of the Ring"/>
<video url="halo2.flv" desc="Halo2 2007 Trailer" img scr="halo.jpg" caption="halo2 - The Movie Trailer" links="Halo 2 - the trailer"/>
<video url="the longest yard.flv" desc="The Longes Yard" img scr="the longest yard.jpg" caption="The Longest Yard trailer" links="The Longest Yard"/>
</videos>

I know something is wrong with it, but I need to know what to do to make it work.

Here is my actionscript: Code:

vlist = new XML();
vlist.ignoreWhite = true;

vlist.onLoad = function() {
var videos:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for (i=0; i < videos.length; i++) {
videoList.addItem(videos[i].attributes.desc, videos[i].attributes.url);
earl.push(videos[i].attributes.url);
desc.push(videos[i].attributes.desc);
img scr.push(videos[i].attributes.img scr);
caption.push(videos[i].attributes.caption);
links.push(videos[i].attributes.links);
}

ns.play(videoList.getItemAt(0).data);
videoList.selectedIndex = 0;

nfod.text = desc[0];
nfoi.image = img scr[0];
nfoc.text = caption[0];
nfol.text = links[0];
}

var vidList:Object = new Object();

vidList.change = function() {
ns.play(videoList.getItemAt(videoList.selectedIndex).data);
}

videoList.addEventListener("change",vidList);

vlist.load("v.xml");

It doesn't work when I test it> Can somebody please help? Thanks.

Special Characters From Asp To Flash
I've got a little problem on which I've been rushing all day long !

It's about special characters loaded from an asp page. The string loaded in flash produced by an asp page looks like this "QtyAnswer=5&sQuestion=%C0+quel+moment", and was perfectly running before I switched to MX.

You can see that the first character in the second variable that is loaded is "%C0", result from a URLEncode of the character "À".

When it comes to my flash, there is no more trace of this character ("À"), it is replace by a square ("�").

I tried everything ! I read all posts... no one solve my problem ! HELP ME PLEASE !!!!!

Thanks so much

Special Characters In Flash MX
We’ve got a problem loading text from a text file into a flash movie. To display special charaters, we use the codes from Macromedia, http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl..._encoding.htm.

Signs like + en % are displayed correctly, but the character à isn’t, instead the flash movie displays [] when we use Macromedia’s code for that character. Furthermore we want to implement an Euro-sign (€), for which no code is given by Macromedia.

Does anybody know the solution to these two problems (the “à” en the “€”)??

Resizing Flash A Special Way...
Hello.

Look at: http://www.praystation.com
and check out how the flash file resizes only on the side (not stretching the whole entire swf). I have been very curious as to how they do this. I have seen a couple other sites with this cool sizing ability but I have never figured out how it is done.

Help?

Flash MX: Help On Special Mouse Over
I'm trying to make a button that will include a random object from my library on a mouseover.

Is there an actionscript that will do this or not? I thought maybe there would be a way to store the names of the objects in an array and then randomly choose a variable in th earray, but I don't know quite how to do that.

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!

Using Special Characters In Flash
Hi there.

I'm trying to get Polish characters (Unicode Latin-Extended set) to work in my Flash movie but I don't have a clue how to get them to work.

Do I have to use actionscript for this? Do I have to embed a special font into the Flash movie? Well, I really don't have any idea how to do this so if someone could help that would be great.

Thanks in advance,
Tim Metz

Special Characters (é,ö, Etc) From XML To Flash
Hi,

I have an XML-file like this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<content>
<text type="intro" id="1"><![CDATA[é]]></text>
</content>

I load the content>text into a variable which is linked to a textfield.
This text-field doesn't show anything. It works fine with other characters, but things like é are not shown.
If I trace this variable, I'm getting �.
Any ideas on how I can fix this? Thanks!

Sven

Special Font In Flash MX
Good day,

I'm using a type of font in my Flash movie that probably 80% of the people don't have. I used the "add font" in the library menu to add it - an "A Font 1" appeared in the library list: does this mean that the font is embebed in the film and the user doesn't have to have it installed in his computer?

Kind regards,

Kepler

Flash ASP Special Characters
Hi everybody,

For those who have been involved in multi-language websites I have a
question about Flash MX and ASP.

Suppose I have a simple form set up in Flash. After pressing the submit
button Flash will send all its variables (in Unicode) to an ASP page which add record in an access database. Simple, right? Thought so too...
however special characters (éèçàäëüö...) from foreign languages (e.g.
French, German) don't render correct in ASP and as a result of this the
generated records shows some unreadble text.

So far the best solution I read was to encode all data inside Flash (escape) and write some search and replace routine to replace all special foreign language characters into a format that ASP do knows hwo to handle. Anyone knows any
tutorials on this?

thanks in advance,

Flash 8 Ain't Nothin Special...
Does anyone else, other than myself, feel that the flash 8 release is nothing special? The new features aren't that great, and a little buggy at best.

I wish they would allow complete pixel control, so I could start creating facial recognition, movement games, or biometric programs with flash. (one can dream) I am stuck doing it with c++ for now.

Special Charachters In Flash
The topic pretty much says it all, but I can explain a little bit more detailed. I want to use swedish charachters in flash (å ä ö), but as you may know those are'nt allowed. I came up with a solution by using html formatted text, but that just seems like a dumb way of doing it. I have'nt managed to find anything yet, something that may depend on the fact that I don't know the "terminology" to do the right search. However, links, ideas just something to get me on the trail would be great (solutions are also welcome). Cheers!

Special Characters In Flash
Hi Everyone,
I'm using a dynamic text box to import a txt file to one of my movies. However, the text file has special characters like accents and other spanish letters. But when it imports the file to the movie, the special characters look like little squares. See here... www.pkasodesigns.com/nosotros.htm

Is this fixable???

THANX A BUNCH.

~Venice

Flash Special Characters
I was wondering what are the codes for the special characters in flash... like how would I make a second line in a varable instead of having everything written in sequence.

I know in ASP its _ but have no clue in flash. I'd like to get all the special characters... kind of hard to google it.

É And Other Special Characters In Flash
Hi,

Hope someone can help with this. I've created a dynamic text box in MX. In which various words appear when buttons have been click on. Problem is special characters such as É, appear either just as E or not at all.

Can anyone help me with a solution for this.

Much obliged.

dabush.

Special Characters In Flash
Anyone know how to display the Greek letter mu using Actionscript?

I have an array for several units of mass in the metric system. In the example below, the symbol for mu needs to be where the ? symbol is.

aUnit[0] = "Nano Gram (ng)";
aUnit[1] = "Micro Gram (?g)";

XML, Flash And Special Characters
Hi

I am danish and therefore have som "special characters" in my language.

It is æ, ø and å (you properly cant view them the right way)

But when I importing the XML to flash and try to show for example a description with the use of these letters/chars it simply remove them.

Anybody knowing how to solve that problem?

Special Characters In Flash
Does anyone know where I can find the copyright or registered trademark symbols in Flash. I feel like I've looked everywhere to no avail.

Thanks,

Brian

Problems With Special Characters In Flash MX
Hi there,

I wrote a simple tool in Flash 5 which displays some text loaded from a PHP-script (via loadVariables). In the text there are special characters like umlauts (ä, ö, ü and ß) and it works fine exporting the movie in Flash 5.

But: Exporting the same file in Flash 6 has the effect of vanished characters. For example the german word for "trees" is "Bäume" which is corectly displayed by the movie in the Flash 5 format. But the Flash 6 movie only shows "Be". Thats all.

The variables loaded into Flash are URLencoded by the PHP-script, so I don't know what is causing this problem.

Can anyone help?

Yobert

Special Characters/ Languages In Flash
Hi!
We have developed a WBT using flash mx. The content is loaded in the file using xml. this was done so that the course could be translated in different languages.

Currentl facing problems with chinese, as:
1.the text is not formatting properly using html tags.
2.not able to embed fonts hebce unable to mask text which is required.
3.can't copy chinese text into flash???

do anyone have a solution please help!!

thanx

Special Characters In Flash HTML
Hello,
I am using a Dynamic text field with a scroll bar in Flasg MX. I need to encode a Registered Trademark, but I cannot figure out how to do it. I have tried ® but that does not work. Is this possible? If so, please enlighten me.

Thanks!

Typing Special Characters In Flash
hi, anyone knows how to type special characters like alpha, beta, zeta etc etc in flash? thanks!

Special Glow Effect For Flash
hello all,

I'm just wondering if any of you know where I can get a tutorial or if you guys can help with the glowing effect to images.

Sort of like the computers in the top left corner in this picture:
http://www.templatemonster.com/show....rch_words=1977

thanks,

Displaying Special Characters In Flash
I am calling text from an external txt file to flash. there are few special characters in the text file which dont get displayed.

Any one can help me how can i display the special characters???

Inserting Special Characters Into Flash
Hi guys, bit of a tricky one here...

I'm trying to insert an alternate character of the letter 'g' into my flash document. I have embedded all the glyphs using the embed button, but it still insists on coming up with the original letter 'g'. The main problem I'm guessing is that they have the same unicode (0067), although they do have different GID's (whatever that is). How do I include this character?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ben

Using Flash For Special Effects In Movies
I have made a movie with my friends and was wondering if it is possible to do some of the lasers and flashes in Flash and then play them over the real movie. Is there any way to make the stage invisible and have Flash play over the live movie? Is there anything Flash can do to aid a live movie? Or am I just dreaming an this is impossible? Thanks guys.

Flash MX Special Effects Question.
Have you guys/gals seen 007: die another day?
If you have would any of you know how to make that ice effect on images and stuff, or have like text, then have an animation or an object fly into it then shatter?

Fairly new to flash, and any info would be greatly appreciated. thx

CSS, HTML And Flash - What About Special Characters?
Hi,

I realy got into Flash, and I love it! I was watching your great tutorials, and I came to one problem with CSS HTML and FLASH, it works fine but I can't use characters from my language like: č, ?, ?. I tryed to embed but I guess that doesn't work for external HTML and CSS.
Can someone help me, please! :oops:

Thanks for your time and replys!

Special Characters Not Working When Passed To Flash
I pass variables to flash from a php file:
.swf?data=café

but i urlencode this to:
.swf?data=caf%E9

But i can't get this text displayed correctly in flash. The special characters don't work. It becomes: caf

what I do wrong?

tanx

Inserting Special Characters Into Flash Mx2004
I am looking to add a copyright character into a static text box. I have tried copy and pasting, alt+0211, and searching around for help? I know I can load it in from an external html text file but do I really need to go to all that trouble?

thanks
-j

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on Sara Bekaj - Blerta Selimi - Skender Jusufi - Murat ergenc or alexandra Plavova

We are a B@DChaoos Companny offerting work for Proggramers with Flash 2 work with us...

Parsing HTML Special Cahracters In Flash
Hi guys

I have a Database that is used for a flash site and for an html based accessible site. Text in teh DB contains special characters like the ones on thsi page:

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/ht...s/special.html

At the moment I have a function that replaces some of these strings:

Code:
_global.handleSpecialCharacters = function(inputString){
trace("handleSpecialCharacters: " + inputString);

if(inputString.indexOf("&") != -1){
trace("replacing special");
RE = new RegExp("&","g");
inputString = RE.replace(inputString,"&");
RE = new RegExp("<","g");
inputString = RE.replace(inputString,"<");
RE = new RegExp(">","g");
inputString = RE.replace(inputString,">");
RE = new RegExp(""","g");
inputString = RE.replace(inputString,""");
RE = new RegExp("'","g");
inputString = RE.replace(inputString,"'");
}

//trace("returning: " + inputString);
return inputString;
}
but it doesn't cover all of them. if I did cover all of them I would be getting concerned about how long this would take to process.

Is there a fucntion in flash that will parse these characters for me?

BTW - I know I could jsut use an html field but that would be a very big job to change everything and would require a lot of testing to make sure everythign had been changed over properly.

I hope someone can help.

Problem With Special Caracteres Flash Upload + Asp
Hello everyone!

Im trying to make a tool that can upload images from flash to a server. It goes pectly weel by using the upload() class, flash oopens a window where the user can choose the image in the hard disk, an then it sends the information to an asp page that completes the upload.

My problem is that when someone chooses an image that contains special caracters like çaça.jpg or águi.jpg the upload owrks but the image saved on the server gets a name like &ampa&%.jpg (i dont remember exatcly how it goes lol, but it changes the special caracters to this codification)

I tried all sorts of ways to change it inside the asp page but it all seems to doesnt make any change..Is there a way to change it inside the flash? Or a good turn around in asp? I have to delivery this project tomorrow and i really need to figure this out... Can anyone pls help me!!!? Thx a lot!!

Special Case Design Patterns For Flash
So, for those of you java-types that do alot with design patterns, I've got a question for you:

I've been working on some reusable class systems, and have been applying interfacing and abstraction on them to enforce compatibility between classes, but it got me wondering: How do you normally go about enforcing compatibility between a class and symbols in your library?

For example, I built a ScrollWindow class, which inherits my Window class and composites my ScrollBar class, and all it takes to instantiate is to do something like:

ActionScript Code:
var myWindow = new ScrollWindow(container_mc);
myWindow.setPosition(10,100);
myWindow.setDimensions(200, 400);
myWindow.content.attachMovie("someBigMCtoScroll", "blah", 0);
myWindow.updateScrollBar();

However, my scrollbar class functions by placing an instance of a symbol from the library with the linkage "scrollbar", which is set to be of the ScrollBar class, and has embedded in it 4 movieclips labelled "up", "down", "scroller", "body." The class then procedes to apply logic to the 4 embedded mcs.

So...how would you go about forcing the coder's library to be compatible with your class systems?

I thought of a few solutions, but I just wanted to get the question up in the air first.

Special Characters In A Txt Document Loaded Into Flash?
I have a txt dockument (It´s loaded into a flash movie) and it looks like this:

&news=
SAXAT 2006-09-12
DAGBLADET SUNDSVALL
Flooré nominerat till pris.
<div>
Golvvärmeföretaget Flooré är
nominerat till exportpriset i
Västernorrland.
 
 
&

My problem is that the special character é in Flooré ends the document, so all text after the "&" character disappears. Is there another way to write "é"?

How Can I Display Russian And Special Characters In Flash?
How can I display russian and special characters in flash ? I suppose the order is

install on development machine, embed the characters and thats it ?

Loading Url-encoded Special Symbols Into Flash
Hi, I've got a problem loading special symbols from a text file into an embedded flash textfield. I particularly want to load ” and “ but when i use the correct url encodes - %93 and %94 - it doesn't work. The text simply displays a gap. The & encode works ok so why shouldn't these others? Are only the basic special characters recognized or something?

Special Characters In Flash 8 Dynamic MyHTMLdata
how do I set up "&" and "â€“" to display in the dynamic text fields from the .txt files? The following works in DW but not in Flash 8:

myHTMLdata=LTCG offers administrative & consulting services as well as IT solutions.
We have developed many proprietary systems and protocols — both operational and intellegence-based — that can be directly applied to your business.

Thank you

Subscripts/Special Glyphs In Flash Text
Does anyone know how to create subscripts within text or insert Greek characters for mathematics equations? Using Flash MX 2004.

This is all adobe has:
http://www.adobe.com/go/1959eceb

Does anyone know a workaround that isn't inserting a graphic file in place for the glyph that I need?

Importing Txt In Flash 8, Problems With Special Caracters
i am having a problem when importing a txt file into my swf. When publishing it in flash player 5 the special caracters (in this case another language) the caracters display just fine, but when publishing in flash 8 they all transform into weird boxes.
Anybody, any sugestions???
thanks a lot

Loading Flash Site In Special Window...
hello there... anyone know how to load ur site... but not under normal "internet explorer" settings (ie. u dont have all the "back.. stop and refresh buttons"... just loading the site with a window... a window as in... a border... a title bar.. and the close and minimize buttons.. if anyone knows how.. it'd b of great help thx ^_^