Re: FLASH: <FLASH> problems rendering special characters

[cjaeger]

> Hi Cornelius,

> 

Hi Paul, Hi Helen,

> Are you sure the problem is not with the font you're using? Does it

> contain all the special characters you need?

Uhm, include Font Outlines? That's a check box in the field properties

dialog box right? Uhm, did I click it... NO

Should I have clicked it... Yes

Thanks for your help I feel... not very clever. But at least it's working.

Never to late to eat humble pie.


> I tried the script below with the device fonts and common things like

> Arial and Tahoma and all the special characters appear as they should.

> 'mcTextMaster' is a movie clip containing a text field called 'myText'.

> It worked whether I included font outlines or not:

> 

> Set Variable: "theText" = "���"

> Set Variable: "nDuplicates" = length(theText)

> Loop While (i < nDuplicates)

> Set Variable: "i" = i+1

> Duplicate Movie Clip ("/mcTextMaster", "mcText" & i, i)

> Set Variable: "/mcText" & i & ":myText" = Substring(theText, i,1)

> Set Property ("/mcText" & i, X Position) = i * 100 //just to space

> the fields so I could see the result

> End Loop

> 

> Is this similar to what you are trying to do?


It was very similar, mcText contained an animated mc which I thought could

be causing the problem. But, ofcourse, it wasn't.

> Maybe that's not the answer you

> wanted, but at least if you know it's posiible you can still plan to go

> climbing ;-)

 Still goin climbing...


Thanks you guys are heroines and heroes.

cheers



Cornelius

www.visualfood.ch



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