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miiiriam
03-03-2003, 02:25 AM
Hi forum folks,
which library should have the linkage set the main movie's lib or the loaded file's library? that's what I am wondering. Maybe sombody out there knows the answer?

My file contains a dynamic text field with fonts embedded sitting in the library. By itself it works fine.

When I load the movie with the text into the main movie though (which happens in the first frame of the main .swf), it doesn't display the text.
Whereas when I create a "fonts" symbol in the main library as well and set the linkage to export for actionscript, TEXT DOES DISPLAY. I don't like that, though cause that creates the usual preload issue I wanted to avoid with the progressbar showing up late because the font is loaded before the first frame.

Does someone know what happens here, why it's not sufficient to load the font when the loaded movie is called?

CyanBlue
03-03-2003, 03:00 AM
Howdy...

Whether you like it or not, you gotta have TWO copies of the SAME FONT embedded... One for the main movie, and another one for the loaded movie...

If you want to avoid the preload stuff, you could uncheck the export on the first frame, and create a text field on frame 1 that embeds proper font and place it off-stage area...

miiiriam
03-03-2003, 11:07 PM
thanks CyanBlue, that works without bugging.