Comments for My Coding Life http://blog.johannest.com Flash from ActionScript to Z-index. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:00:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Runtime Font Publisher, a tool for runtime font sharing. by Aristophrenia http://blog.johannest.com/2010/06/22/runtime-font-publisher-a-tool-for-runtime-font-sharing/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Aristophrenia Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:00:07 +0000 http://blog.johannest.com/?p=84#comment-448 Hi, am very keen to get this up and running - however have not been able to register a single font ? I'm using cs5 from eclipse on win7. The panel appears to be creating the required swf but nothing is being made available in the players font list. var fontList:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false); trace("_________COMPLETE FONTS LIST"+fontList.toString()); Any ideas on what is going on ? Hi,
am very keen to get this up and running – however have not been able to register a single font ?

I’m using cs5 from eclipse on win7.

The panel appears to be creating the required swf but nothing is being made available in the players font list.

var fontList:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false);
trace(“_________COMPLETE FONTS LIST”+fontList.toString());

Any ideas on what is going on ?

]]> Comment on GotoClip. A solution for Error #1009, gotoAndStop, gotoAndPlay and targeting children MovieClips. by Vitor Franchi http://blog.johannest.com/2009/04/30/gotoclip-a-solution-for-error-1009-gotoandstop-gotoandplay-and-targeting-children-movieclips/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Vitor Franchi Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:16:08 +0000 http://blog.johannest.com/?p=14#comment-444 Thanks for you post! I was loosing my head on why I'm getting this error every time I call gotoAndStop on my custom movie clip I had just instantiated. Flash really looses the reference to the object when you call gotoAndStop, or gotoAndPlay. You need to instantiate your object, make all changes necessary and finally change it's frame if needed, otherwise you'll need to find you recently instantiated object on the stage children, if you had added it to it. That's messed up! Thanks for you post! I was loosing my head on why I’m getting this error every time I call gotoAndStop on my custom movie clip I had just instantiated.
Flash really looses the reference to the object when you call gotoAndStop, or gotoAndPlay. You need to instantiate your object, make all changes necessary and finally change it’s frame if needed, otherwise you’ll need to find you recently instantiated object on the stage children, if you had added it to it. That’s messed up!

]]> Comment on Runtime Font Publisher; A Flash CS4 Extension. by gniewko http://blog.johannest.com/2009/09/28/runtime-font-publisher-a-flash-cs4-extension/comment-page-1/#comment-435 gniewko Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:20:22 +0000 http://blog.johannest.com/?p=36#comment-435 ok I did it through: var styles:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet(); styles.setStyle("em", { display:"inline", fontFamily: "FuturaBKBold", fontStyle: "regular" }); tf.styleSheet = styles; And it works fine now for <em>Bolded Text</em> ok I did it through:

var styles:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
styles.setStyle(“em”, {
display:”inline”,
fontFamily: “FuturaBKBold”,
fontStyle: “regular”
});
tf.styleSheet = styles;

And it works fine now for <em>Bolded Text</em>

]]> Comment on Runtime Font Publisher; A Flash CS4 Extension. by gniewko http://blog.johannest.com/2009/09/28/runtime-font-publisher-a-flash-cs4-extension/comment-page-1/#comment-434 gniewko Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:19:51 +0000 http://blog.johannest.com/?p=36#comment-434 gr8 tool ... have been using it since long time, however I have an issue. Is it possible to use two separate fonts (one is regular nad the other bold) to make it work for example with htmlText like this: <b>bold</b> en of bold. I have not idea how to do it even if i Have the same font but styles are in separate ttf files. Please help. gr8 tool … have been using it since long time, however I have an issue. Is it possible to use two separate fonts (one is regular nad the other bold) to make it work for example with htmlText like this:

bold en of bold.

I have not idea how to do it even if i Have the same font but styles are in separate ttf files. Please help.

]]> Comment on A property list for embedding fonts with the [Emded] metadata tag. by wagster http://blog.johannest.com/2010/01/20/a-property-list-for-embedding-fonts-with-the-emded-metadata-tag/comment-page-1/#comment-425 wagster Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:24:25 +0000 http://blog.johannest.com/?p=44#comment-425 Oh lordy - why don't Adobe publish this stuff? It really shouldn't be up to people like you to document the behaviour of their software. Thanks a lot - immediate bookmark. Oh lordy – why don’t Adobe publish this stuff? It really shouldn’t be up to people like you to document the behaviour of their software.

Thanks a lot – immediate bookmark.

]]> Comment on Debugging ActionScript and JavaScript simultaneously with Flash Builder 4 and Aptana Studio. by Johannes http://blog.johannest.com/2010/10/19/debugging-actionscript-and-javascript-simultaneously-with-flash-builder-4-and-aptana-studio/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Johannes Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:23:29 +0000 http://blog.johannest.com/?p=133#comment-374 Glad to hear it works with IE, I haven't had a chance to try yet. Aptana supports IE debugging in addition to Firefox debugging, so it's good to know the technique works with both browsers. Thanks for the confirmation! Glad to hear it works with IE, I haven’t had a chance to try yet. Aptana supports IE debugging in addition to Firefox debugging, so it’s good to know the technique works with both browsers. Thanks for the confirmation!

]]> Comment on Debugging ActionScript and JavaScript simultaneously with Flash Builder 4 and Aptana Studio. by Niko http://blog.johannest.com/2010/10/19/debugging-actionscript-and-javascript-simultaneously-with-flash-builder-4-and-aptana-studio/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Niko Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:49:28 +0000 http://blog.johannest.com/?p=133#comment-373 Nice! One more thing: It also works with Internet Explorer. Even better in my case since Firefox often crashes when opening the debug session. Nice!

One more thing: It also works with Internet Explorer. Even better in my case since Firefox often crashes when opening the debug session.

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]]> Comment on On using the [Embed] tag with fontStyle & fontWeight properties. by Johannes http://blog.johannest.com/2010/05/19/on-using-the-embed-tag-with-fontstyle-fontweight-properties/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Johannes Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:01:18 +0000 http://blog.johannest.com/?p=53#comment-357 <p>The four faces per fontName is a restriction, because that's all the ActionScript TextFormat API exposes right now. Bold and Italic are boolean properties on the TextFormat object. For text engine text, the API for FontDescription looks like it could be extended in the future. Both the fontWeight and fontPosture properties accept strings, so in theory different values could be added in the future to allow for more than four faces. You can embed one font with more than four subfamilies, but you'll have to start separating them by fontName once you get past the four options.</p><p>To get bitmap text to work the same as the Flash IDE with mxmlc requires a little more work. You can embed the font with the compiler (mxmlc), but all the extra work that the Flash IDE does to textfields on the timeline to prep for bitmap (non anti-aliased) text, you'll have to do with ActionScript at runtime after you've compiled the font with mxmlc. I don't know of any embed tag meta data properties that you can add for bitmaps fonts, that are used at runtime by the Flash Player to ensure they render without aliasing.</p> The four faces per fontName is a restriction, because that’s all the ActionScript TextFormat API exposes right now. Bold and Italic are boolean properties on the TextFormat object. For text engine text, the API for FontDescription looks like it could be extended in the future. Both the fontWeight and fontPosture properties accept strings, so in theory different values could be added in the future to allow for more than four faces. You can embed one font with more than four subfamilies, but you’ll have to start separating them by fontName once you get past the four options.

To get bitmap text to work the same as the Flash IDE with mxmlc requires a little more work. You can embed the font with the compiler (mxmlc), but all the extra work that the Flash IDE does to textfields on the timeline to prep for bitmap (non anti-aliased) text, you’ll have to do with ActionScript at runtime after you’ve compiled the font with mxmlc. I don’t know of any embed tag meta data properties that you can add for bitmaps fonts, that are used at runtime by the Flash Player to ensure they render without aliasing.

]]> Comment on On using the [Embed] tag with fontStyle & fontWeight properties. by Denis Sataev http://blog.johannest.com/2010/05/19/on-using-the-embed-tag-with-fontstyle-fontweight-properties/comment-page-1/#comment-356 Denis Sataev Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:44:47 +0000 http://blog.johannest.com/?p=53#comment-356 Thanks Johannes for quick answer. But unfortunately, suggested embedding doesn't work as expected. Only normal typeface (Futura Medium) is embedded. I've managed to convert *.ttc file to several ttf files (using onlinefontconverter.com), so this is workaround for this case. You have mentioned that you embedded fonts with other subfamilies, have you succeed in embedding of more than 4 typefaces per single fontName? Additional off the topic question - is it possible to embed bitmap fonts using mxmlc (Flash Builder)? I mean in Flash IDE it is possible to set anti-alias to Bitmap text [no anti-alias] for any font, is there any ability to achieve the same result using mxmlc(Flash Builder)? Best regards. Thanks Johannes for quick answer.
But unfortunately, suggested embedding doesn’t work as expected. Only normal typeface (Futura Medium) is embedded.
I’ve managed to convert *.ttc file to several ttf files (using onlinefontconverter.com), so this is workaround for this case.
You have mentioned that you embedded fonts with other subfamilies, have you succeed in embedding of more than 4 typefaces per single fontName?
Additional off the topic question – is it possible to embed bitmap fonts using mxmlc (Flash Builder)? I mean in Flash IDE it is possible to set anti-alias to Bitmap text [no anti-alias] for any font, is there any ability to achieve the same result using mxmlc(Flash Builder)?
Best regards.

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