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ryanmills
09-23-2005, 10:32 PM
Ok I must be missing something basic. I have run into this issue before and only got it to work right after doing something that should not work.

Very simply I have a text area set to dyn that loads HTML text from a XML page. The loading all works fine and when I test the text it comes up fine when I enable the text as HTML.

The prob of the text area are simple. Just a reg font. Neither bold or italics are selected but I do have the anti alias checked and I use AS to set the box for HTML. When I test it. it comes up fine. So I went to add a alpha fade. I tried targeting all three movie clips it sits inside (i.e. box1.box.textBox). This is the part that pisses me off. No matter what I do any of the movie clips or the textBox its self. It will not fade unless I go into the char prop and set the embed font outlines for the first 3 or 4 types. Then it will fade. BUT only the text that is not bold or in italics... :mad: I thought maybe I had to use an embedded font. So I tried that as well and it was still the same thing.

It seems like such a simple thing... I just don't get why it does not work. If it helps I can zip my code and post it.


Ideas?

Sunny13
09-24-2005, 08:22 AM
attach the file

ryanmills
09-24-2005, 12:11 PM
http://ryanmills.net/GalleryTextIssue.rar


Yep I'm at a loss on it... I can only guess its a really simple dumb thing I'm missing... :confused:

oldnewbie
09-24-2005, 02:21 PM
Fonts' outlines (all 3 styles, normal, bold & italic...) must all be seperately embedded.

ryanmills
09-24-2005, 10:16 PM
Sorry this is going to sound dumb. Did you mean embedding them thru the library or is there a spot I missed in properties panel?

ryanmills
09-26-2005, 11:44 PM
any other thoughts?

oldnewbie
09-27-2005, 02:05 AM
Well I'm not on MX2004, but believe there's still a Character tab in the textfield's properties, and that's where you can embed the font's outlines.