----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, 23 February, 2008 11:32
AM
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common]
TextSnapShot
In the Flash 8 Help Doc , and I did some testing as well
to correctly verify this.
Here is what the doc says (taken from the
hitTestTextNearPos function - but applies to other funcitons as
well):
This method works correctly only with fonts that
include character metric information; however, by default, Macromedia Flash
does not include this information for static text fields. Therefore, the
method might return -1
instead of an index value. To ensure that
an index value is returned, you can force the Flash authoring tool to include
the character metric information for a font. To do this, add a dynamic text
field that uses that font, select Character Options for that dynamic text
field, and then specify that font outlines should be embedded for at least one
character. (It doesn't matter which characters you specify, nor whether they
are the characters used in the static text fields.)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, 23 February, 2008 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common]
TextSnapShot
>> In order to
use TextSnapShot class in flash, it requires that at least
>> one
character of the font be embedded (and not all the fonts).
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> I
don't get it- how are you going to display the font if you only embed
>
one character?
> Where did you get this information about the
TextSnapShot class?
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> Greetings
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Matthias
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