this is an extension of a previous entry here.
Text in components or TextFields can be formatted in several ways – applying styles manually in the case of TextFields, applying a style using a TextFormat object, StyleSheets for styling html formatted text, or the StyleManager for setting global styles or styles for all instances of a component.
This article focuses on styling instances of components or TextFields with an embedded font in a TextFormat object.
The TextFormat Object would look something like this:
//first embed Comic Sans in the library
//select Linkage Properties on the font, select ‘Export for ActionScript’ and give it the Class name of ‘ComicSans’.
var format:TextFormat=new TextFormat();
format.font=new ComicSans().fontName;
format.color=0xFF0000;
Use the following code to apply this TextFormat style to the following display object types(all of which i’ve assumed have the instance name ‘whichObject’.)
TextField
whichObject.defaultTextFormat=format;
Button, TextArea, TextInput, Label, NumericStepper, RadioButton, CheckBox
whichObject.setStyle(“textFormat”, format);
ComboBox
whichObject.textField.setStyle(“textFormat”, format);
whichObject.dropdown.setRendererStyle(“embedFonts”, true); //dropdown is the list of options
whichObject.dropdown.setRendererStyle(“textFormat”, format);
List
whichObject.setRendererStyle(“textFormat”, format);
DataGrid
whichObject.setRendererStyle(“textFormat”, format);
whichObject.setStyle(“headerTextFormat”, format); //styles the datagrid’s header
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Update to this post here:
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