Specifying custom named unicode ranges in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 24, 2008 · 5 Comments

We’ve looked at general font embedding and unicode ranges before in previous examples (see “Embedding and animating fonts in a Flex application” and “Specifying certain unicode-ranges for embedded fonts”), but this example will show you how you can embed a named range of unicode characters into an application by editing your flex-config.xml file [...]

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Customizing the Flex DateChooser control

By Peter deHaan On December 21, 2007 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can customize the DateChooser control in Flex by using an embedded font, customizing the header styles, week day names, week day name styles, and colors by setting various styles and properties.

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Embedding fonts for the Flex DateField control

By Peter deHaan On December 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can embed fonts for use with the DateField control in Flex. Note that we embed both the normal and bold font weights since by default the month and year are bold in the DateChooser sub-component.

Full code after the jump.

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Specifying certain unicode-ranges for embedded fonts

By Peter deHaan On August 7, 2007 · 8 Comments

In a previous post (“Embedding and animating fonts in a Flex application“), we looked at embedding a font in a Flex application so we could animate, rotate, and set the alpha for a Text control. Well, as we learnt, sometimes embedding a whole font face can dramatically increase the size of the final SWF [...]

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