ActionScript 3.0 :: Embedding Helvetica Bold (continued)?
Dec 4, 2009
Problem: although I'm embedding Helvetica Neue 75 Bold, flash displays Helvetica 55 Roman. note that it's not Helvetica Neue 55 Roman, but Helvetica 55 Roman. So a completely different Font family that I don't even happen to have installed.
I'm assigning text to a dynamic textfield using myField.text = "My text that I added dynamically.". Once this is done, if you examine the myField.htmlText property you will notice that Flash has added a bunch of crap:
<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Helvetica 55 Roman" SIZE="20" COLOR="#000000" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">My text that I added dynamically.</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>
Notice in particular the <FONT FACE...> tag which is what I believe is causing the problem - it's hard-coding the Helvetica 55 Roman font in there. Where the heck is that even coming from? And more to the point, how to get rid of it?Before you suggest a RegExp, I tried that and it doesn't work. I can strip out the <FONT> tag, but when you then re-apply the new string and trace out the .htmlText property again, that <FONT> tag is back!
Code:
var txt = String(txtQuestion.htmlText).replace(/<FONT[^>]+>(.+)</FONT>/, "$1");
txtQuestion.htmlText = txt;
trace(txtQuestion.htmlText);
Also, note that this ONLY occurs for multiline text fields. As soon as you switch to single line, everything is perfect (except that it's not multiline!!)
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