Comments on: Using embedded fonts with the Button control in Flash with ActionScript 3.0

By: Glen

Glen — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:11:42 +0000

would love to know the same thing as Sharon!

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:46:03 +0000

I’ve studied the Button component quick start guide, I’ve tested a bunch of styles for the button textField (including the advice above), but the one thing I cannot force it to do is align to the left. It consistently remains centered.

My menu is appearing on the left of the flash document, so I do not want centered text. the only workaround I’ve found that works is to set button.label = “”; and then create a whole new textfield. Is this really the only way?

By: Lee Probert

Lee Probert — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:19:03 +0000

You can set global styles too …

import fl.managers.StyleManager;
import fl.controls.Button;

var myFont:Font = new Font(); // in the library

var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tf.color = 0xFF0000;
tf.font = myFont.fontName;
tf.size = 11;
tf.align = TextFormatAlign.LEFT;

StyleManager.setComponentStyle(Button, “embedFonts”, true);
StyleManager.setComponentStyle(Button, “textFormat”, tf);
StyleManager.setComponentStyle(Button, “antiAliasType”, AntiAliasType.ADVANCED);