ActionScript 3.0 :: Embedding Text To Rotate
Aug 19, 2009
I'm having an issue embedding a font to rotate 90 deg. Below is code that works. My library has a Font item. The name is "test" and the font is "Arial".
ActionScript Code:
var myFont:Font = new test();
var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat(myFont.fontName, 15, 0x000000);
var sideBarText:TextField = new TextField();
[Code]....
My text field appears sideways just as I want. My question is, how can I accomplish this WITHOUT having a prebuilt item in my library? I want to make it dynamically like: var myFont:Font = new Font(); or something, but can't find how to do it.
Is this possible? The reason is, all my info will be loaded in from an XML and I want the option to change the font from that, ie "Tahoma, Arial, Times, etc"
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