Using embedded fonts with the MX AdvancedDataGrid control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 24, 2010 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the MX AdvancedDataGrid control in Flex 4 by setting the embedAsCFF and fontFamily styles.

 

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Using an embedded font with the LinkButton control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On September 4, 2008 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex LinkButton control by setting the fontFamily and fontWeight styles.

The LinkButton control uses a bold font weight by default, so you need to either embed the bold font weight, or set the LinkButton control’s fontWeight style to normal.

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

By Peter deHaan On July 31, 2008 · 15 Comments

The following example shows how you can set different fonts for different items in a Flex ComboBox control’s dropdown menu by using a custom item renderer.

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Using embedded fonts with the ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 6, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex ComboBox control by setting the fontFamily style and dropdownStyleName style.

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Using an embedded font with the ColorPicker control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 15, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex ColorPicker control by setting the fontFamily style.

 

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Using an embedded font with the TabBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex TabBar control by setting the fontFamily and fontWeight styles.

 

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Using an embedded font with the Slider controls in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex HSlider control by setting the fontFamily and labelStyleName styles.

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Using an embedded font with the ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 2, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex ComboBox control by setting the fontFamily style.

 

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Using embedded fonts with the NumericStepper control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On May 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex NumericStepper control by setting the fontFamily style.

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Using embedded fonts with the Panel container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On February 28, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex Panel container so that a Panel container can be rotated or faded without the text “disappearing”. The trick here is to set the panel’s titleStyleName style to a custom style which sets the font family to the embedded font.

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Using embedded fonts in a Flex DataGrid control

By Peter deHaan On February 12, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can use embedded fonts with the DataGrid control in Flex.

Note that the DataGridColumn’s use a bold font by default, so you’ll either need to either embed both a normal and bold font weight, or else set the DataGrid control’s column font weight to normal.

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Embedding fonts in a Flex application using Embed metadata

By Peter deHaan On February 7, 2008 · 9 Comments

The following example shows how you can embed a font using ActionScript and the [Embed] metadata.

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