Comments on: Setting a font’s anti-alias type, sharpness, thickness and grid fit type in Flex

By: Maxim Kachurovskiy

Maxim Kachurovskiy — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:58:20 +0000

Great example, it helps thousands of developers through the years.

It’s a pity that thickness and sharpness does not work without embedding Arial – I believe that this font is almost on every device…

By: Dale Fraser

Dale Fraser — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:42:05 +0000

How would I go about doing this with a bold font.

When I change the fontWeight to bold it looses all the other properties.

By: diego

diego — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:11:34 +0000

if anyones interested, i found this solution though its kind of lame that flex doesn’t just handle this properly

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=60&catid=585&threadid=1270143&highlight_key=y&keyword1=font size

anyone have another solution?

By: diego

diego — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:30:00 +0000

Hi,
I downloaded this code and works great on my local box. I then changed the sizeSlider maximum value for the font slider from
maximum=”24″ to maximum=”240″ and I recompiled. It still works fine, but once I get past 130 the font stops getting bigger. Is there a reason for this? A better question, is there a way around this?

thanks for your help. your examples are fantastic.
diego

By: Ric Aruffo

Ric Aruffo — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:50:57 +0000

Peter,
Thanks for sharing soooo much of your knowledge with us “newbies”.

I do have a question on your “Setting a font’s anti-alias type, sharpness, thickness and grid fit type in Flex” example. I have an embedded font(futura book) applied to some dynamically generated text, and I am trying to set the text to uppercase using css. I tried text-transform:uppercase; in an tag and in an external stylesheet with no results.

Can you help or is this even possible?

Thanks,
Ric

By: Knight

Knight — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:27:37 +0000

Thank you for your reply!

Not to bother you but i would highly appreciate an example/tutorial of how to go about it.
I must say that this blog is one of the best if not the best flex resource on the web!

By: peterd

peterd — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:01:10 +0000

Knight,

I’ve never tried synchronizing databases with Flex/AIR yet, but I imagine it’d be as easy as grabbing the desired data from the SQLite database, converting it into an XML packet, sending the XML to a server-side script (ColdFusion/PHP/ASP/etc) which in turn updates the MySQL database.

Peter

By: Knight

Knight — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:57:03 +0000

Great example!!

Thank you for your good work!

I dont know where i could post questions so forgive my ignorance on this.

How would i go about synchronizing a local sqlite database with an online mysql one?

This is in the case that i want to use the above example as part of my “preferences/settings” and want it to remain the same no matter where i log in from(Air App or Flex web).