Using an embedded font with the TextInput control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0

by Peter deHaan on December 22, 2008 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flash ActionScript 3.0 TextInput control by setting the embedFonts and textFormat styles.

Full code after the jump.

// ActionScript 3.0
/* Requires:
 * - TextInput component in Flash library
 * - Embedded font with class name "MyEmbeddedFont" in Flash library
 */
import fl.controls.TextInput;
 
var embeddedFont:Font = new MyEmbeddedFont();
 
var textFmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
textFmt.color = 0xFF0000;
textFmt.font = embeddedFont.fontName;
textFmt.size = 18;
 
var textInput:TextInput = new TextInput();
textInput.text = new Date().toString();
textInput.setStyle("embedFonts", true);
textInput.setStyle("textFormat", textFmt);
textInput.width = 300;
textInput.move(10, 10);
addChild(textInput);

Figure 1. Font Symbol Properties dialog box.

6 Responses to Using an embedded font with the TextInput control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0

Ivo says:

May 19, 2009 at 8:12 am

Excellent, I was attempting to set embedFonts and textFormat through the TextInput.textField property for the longest time…

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Oded says:

June 21, 2009 at 6:27 am

Hi. I’ve read this post as well as your article on http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/embedding_fonts/ and I found that using the described instructions I can’t get the text fields to display unicode characters – only Latin1 characters can be embedded.

Do you know of a way to work around that limitation, as I really need to be able to embed fonts for unicode text.

Thanks.

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Karl Benedikt says:

August 23, 2009 at 12:35 am

Unicode characters in Flash textInput? Does anyone know how include these?

Thanks.

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Ernesto Pino says:

June 8, 2011 at 2:28 am

Gracias por compartir esta información. Ha sido muy valiosa para mi.
He solucionado un gran problema en una aplicación de Facebook desarrollada con AS3 y Flash CS5.

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- Ernesto Pino says:
  
  June 8, 2011 at 2:33 am
  
  Upps :(
  Ahora no me funciona la aplicación en Facebook, en local si.
  ¿Qué puede ser?
  
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mintakastar says:

August 25, 2011 at 2:30 pm

hello =D

well even this post is some years old , it really helped me =D thanks !, this was freaking me out !!

this solution solves the problem of spanish/latin characters like ñ or Ñ

I saw a solution like
textField.embedFonts = true ; textField.textFormat= someTextFormat;
but there was not for TextInput or TextArea (only text field)
textField.setStyle("embedFonts", true); textInput.setStyle("textFormat", textFmt);
so this helped me so much xD

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