Comments on: Using the flash.* classes in MXML

By: Tiago

Tiago — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:51:39 +0000

oh that’s a really cool trick :)

Thanks Peter!

By: dormouse

dormouse — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:50:45 +0000

peterd

Thanks, i have saw the Adobe Flex 2 Developer’s Guide documentation. In it, using flash 8 to create swf with embedded fonts. But i use mxmlc order to create it.
Code:FontSkin.as
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;

public class FontSkin extends Sprite
{
[Embed(mimeType=’application/x-font’, source=’xujinglei.fon’, fontName=’handFont’)]
public var MyFont:Class;
}
}
then in the console input mxmlc FontSkin.as to create swf.
It is my first to write, there is any things wrong?Can you give me some tips, Thanks for your applys

By: peterd

peterd — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:33:02 +0000

dormouse,

I don’t know of any reasons to do one or the other (not that there aren’t valid reasons, I just don’t know why one method is preferable to the other). I did have an entry on using fonts from a SWF in an MXML application, but it has been in my drafts for a month or so now. I’ll see if I can dig that up.

In the meantime, check out the Adobe Flex 2 Developer’s Guide documentation on LiveDocs, “Using Fonts”. And more specifically, this section “Embedding fonts from SWF files”.

Hope that helps,
Peter

PS: Any readers out there care to educate me on why fonts embedded in SWFs are preferable to TTF fonts embedded in MXML?

By: dormouse

dormouse — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:11:02 +0000

peterd,
today, my boss told me that”Do not binding font in the swf”, so i have to load a external font from the server.
Now, i spend a long time to solve it.
Although, i didn’t know why? Why not binding a new font in the swf(while it will be larger)?

BTW, my english is pool.Sorry;(