Re: [Flashcoders] Combining embedded and device fonts in one textfield

2010-02-10 Thread confustic...@gmail.com
Thanks for that link, Ktu. I didn't know you could specify Unicode ranges to embed - very handy. Unfortunately, the problem still remains of having to combine an embedded font and a device font in the same textfield. As Lee Brimelow demonstrates near the end of the tutorial, the lowercase 'u' didn

Re: [Flashcoders] Combining embedded and device fonts in one textfield

2010-02-10 Thread Ktu
If you have Flash CS4 or Flex, you could embed just that one character from that font using the [Embed] syntax. Check out this tutorial http://gotoandlearn.com/play?id=102 Ktu On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:08 PM, confustic...@gmail.com < confustic...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have paragraphs of text wh

[Flashcoders] Combining embedded and device fonts in one textfield

2010-02-10 Thread confustic...@gmail.com
I have paragraphs of text which includes phonemic symbols: pretty much any character found here should be included: http://www.e-lang.co.uk/mackichan/call/pron/type.html I thought I was home and hosed, as Lucida Sans Unicode / Lucida Grande, which seems pretty standard, covers all that. The probl

[Flashcoders] AS2: blank input text field when clicked

2010-02-10 Thread Alan Neilsen
I am working in AS2. I have an input text field I am using with an AS2 flipbook component so users can type a page number then go to that page in the flipbook. I want to make it so when the text field is clicked, any existing text is removed and focus set so the user is then ready to type a page

[Flashcoders] Flash 10 - using basic RTL features without CS4

2010-02-10 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Quick question. If I am publishing with CS3, but running swfs in FP10, can I take get RTL rendering in standard text fields without using CS4 and / or the Text Layout Framework - i.e. does putting Arabic text into a dynamic text field "just work", or do I have to fiddle?

[Flashcoders] Runtime Font embedding

2010-02-10 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, I am working on some runtime font embedding with Flash CS3 by loading in a SWF at runtime with font symbols defined in library, exported for Actionscript, but not for sharing. I wish to use Arabic and Chinese characters in my fonts, so I have symbols for Arial and MingLiU Bold font

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #2101 - String passed to URLVariables.decode() ... must be URL encoded...

2010-02-10 Thread Karim Beyrouti
That's what i thought however, i just found the error ( spent best part of 2 hours on this )... it was the ampersands at the start of the query string that really messed things up for flash... Thank for the reply ...Glen Cheers Karim On 10 Feb 2010, at 15:51, Glen Pike wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: [Flashcoders] Error #2101 - String passed to URLVariables.decode() ... must be URL encoded...

2010-02-10 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Is it the fact that your ampersands are not encoded as & ? Glen Karim Beyrouti wrote: Hello List - I am using 'URLLoader' to get some data from the server and get an error: Error: Error #2101: The String passed to URLVariables.decode() must be a URL-encoded query string contain

[Flashcoders] Error #2101 - String passed to URLVariables.decode() ... must be URL encoded...

2010-02-10 Thread Karim Beyrouti
Hello List - I am using 'URLLoader' to get some data from the server and get an error: Error: Error #2101: The String passed to URLVariables.decode() must be a URL-encoded query string containing name/value pairs. The dataFormat is set to : URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES; The Data source is

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating a XMLList in the source code

2010-02-10 Thread kennethkawam...@gmail.com
In this case you may use String as parameter for the constructor. var xmlList:XMLList = new XMLList(''); You can also use Boolean and Number as parameter :) -- Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ On 10 February 2010 14:37, Alexander Farber wrote: > Sorry for one more probably basic

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating a XMLList in the source code

2010-02-10 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, I don't think you can do this - you have to create a single XML node around the list then pull the list out from that.. Glen Alexander Farber wrote: Sorry for one more probably basic XML question, but how do you create an XMLList object? I've tried: var list:XMLList = ; var lis

RE: [Flashcoders] Creating a XMLList in the source code

2010-02-10 Thread David Hunter
maybe add the "new" word in. the below doesn't trace any errors for me. but i've never used XMLList before. var myList:XMLList = new XMLList(); > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:37:19 +0100 > From: alexander.far...@gmail.com > To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > Subject: [Flashcoders] Creating a X

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating a XMLList in the source code

2010-02-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
as far as i know, xml list is really designed to be a way of accessing multiple nodes in an xml doc so you would start with an XML object and pull the list from there var xml:XML = ; var list:XMLList = xml.user; best a On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Alexander Farber < alexander.far

[Flashcoders] Creating a XMLList in the source code

2010-02-10 Thread Alexander Farber
Sorry for one more probably basic XML question, but how do you create an XMLList object? I've tried: var list:XMLList = ; var list:XMLList = XMLList( ); var list:XMLList = XMLList(' '); These all return errors, like for the 2nd one: 1084: Syntax error: expecting rightparen before pos. R