Displaying different fonts in a dropdown menu on a ComboBox control in Flex

I cannot seem to figure out how to pull the selected font to a textbox so I can see what is selected. I have tried all kinds of things:
{myFont.labelField}
{myFont.selectedItem.label}

The comboBox id is myFont

Any insight would be great

Thanks
G.

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Love the site, lots of good nuggets.

Building upon this topic, any ideas how to add an embedded font to a Rich Text Editor? Not just assign the embedded font, but append multiple to the RTE. I’ve always been able to push a fontName to the fontFamilyArray, but the font never renders in the RTE, I always get a default font to render.

Example:

<mx:Style>
    @font-face {
        src:url("AABIGFICTION.swf");
        fontFamily: "AABIGFICTION";
    }
</mx:Style>

<mx:Script>
    RTE.fontFamilyArray.push('AABIGFICTION');
</mx:Script>

<mx:RichTextEditor fontAntiAliasType="advanced" x="134" y="21" id="RTE" title="Title" width="440" height="368" enabled="true"></:RichTextEditor>

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Peter,

You are right, you cant’ mix device and embedded fonts in a text field. If I embed a device font like you did in your example, I get the same result, it works perfectly.

But, if I use a compiled swf containing a whole fontfamily, or embed a true type or open type font, I can’t get the fonts to render right. I can assign a font like in the example below, but if I try to utilize the fontfamilyarray, you get a default font rendering. The underlying html though, shows the correct font selection, the rendering in the RTE only doesn’t show the right font.

I can get a font (AABIGFICTION) to work like this:

<mx:Style>
	@font-face {
		src:url("AABIGFICTION.swf");
		fontFamily: "AABIGFICTION";
		}
		@font-face {
		src:url("Baskerville_Old_Face.swf");
		fontFamily: "Baskerville_Old_Face";
		}

</mx:Style>

<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
private function returnHandler():void {

RTE.fontFamilyArray = ["AABIGFICTION", "Baskerville_Old_Face"];
}
	]]>
</mx:Script>

<mx:RichTextEditor id="RTE" title="Title" width="440" fontFamily="AABIGFICTION" height="368" creationComplete="returnHandler();">

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do you know how to get a combo box in a rich text editor to do this. Trying to do it in AS3 not MXML.

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My local machine available of some unicode font in chinese character. Once i try with this application inside the drop down list found that unicode font is render inproper appear as “???????”. Any way to resolve this?

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