can i use smilies in dynamic text?

[Crapatscript]

ok, what i wanna know really is...

would it be possible to swap :) for a smilie...

i have a new scroller... and it loads text from an external variable, thats fair enough... but say if i had this test "bla bla bla :)" is it at all possible to get flash to change the ":)" for an instance of a smilie in the same way php would... or is it not possible due to it being dynamic text??

[Jesse]

No it's not really possible because Flash fields don't allow for graphics, even simple ones. Unless you wanted to use the smiley face symbol from a font (I know there's one out there) but that's just a small black and white smile, not like the ones on these forums.

[Crapatscript]

no i didn't think it woud be possible... and yeh i checked out the font radbats and it's not very good as they need to be quite big, plus there's the fact that the person viewing it would need the font oo, wouldn;t they? um, or does flash force the fonts... i not remember (memory like seive)

[Billy T]

if it is static text flash automatically embeds the fonts. If it is dynamic or input you need to embed them yourself.

[Nisha]

I think flash automatically embeds, only the true type fonts, you can check it with checking for antialiasing.