Making a Font list like MS, Dynamicly

[farafiro]

I have an idea of making a text Editor for a long time now, but 'till I do it, here is a piece of code that I was inspired with, of making a font list that changes the font on the run within the text field. he main Idea was from MM site, but I've changed all the scripts upside down, will add it later in the Library

//Code and all Credits belongs to Farafiro, created Feb. 06/2003
//First, grab a combo box to the stage, then delete it, or grab it only to the library
//attaching the ComboBox to the root
_root.attachMovie("FComboBoxSymbol", "fontList", -1000, {_x:50, _y:50});
//To make the ComboBox Editable, to accept writting the first letter
fontList.setDataProvider(TextField.getFontList());
//sorting the fonts
fontList.sortItemsBy("label", "asc");
//Creating a text field that showes the current font
_root.createTextField("fontLable",50,75+fontList._width,50,75,fontList._height)
with(fontLable){
    border = true
    autoSize = true
    }
//Creating the main text field
_root.createTextField("myField", 100, 50, 100, 350, 400);
with (myField) {
    type = "input"
    text = "Add any text and chose any font ......"
    border = true;
    borderColor = 0x336699;
}
//Making our text formating
tf = new TextFormat();
//The script that controlls the font's Changing
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
    fontList.onKillFocus = function() {
        selecting = false;
    };
    fontList.onSetFocus = function() {
        selecting = true;
    };
    if (selecting) {
        _root.fontLable.text = fontList.getValue();
        tf.font = fontList.getValue();
        myField.setTextFormat(tf);
    } else {
        fontList.setValue(_root.fontLable.text);
    }
    myField.setNewTextFormat(tf);
};

You can use this as you want, but u can gimmie some credit too

[l-i-n-k]

Add the

multiline = true; 
wordWrap = true;

parames to the main textfield and you can write a letter

Thank you.

[farafiro]

done, thx

[Mortimer Jazz]

bug: just thought I'd let you know.
Doesn't seem to work with many fonts (even if I place a textbox onstage and embed the font outlines for that font). Fonts like Arial and Arial Black work but many others don't.

[farafiro]

I will check it out, but it worked here with all the fonts in my system

[farafiro]

I tried it again over the web and it went very well, even with the odd fonts like Coptic and Greek
http://www.geocities.com/a_fayek/fun...y_fontList.swf

[Mortimer Jazz]

I'm getting a 404 on that link Faffy.

Oh, maybe it's just me then. It didn't work locally for me at all. It said it was displaying certain fonts, but they wern't the corrent ones. Maybe some other people can test it and see if its a platform related or flash plugin version problem.

[Billy T]

that works a treat for me

mac osx ie5.2

very nice indeed!

[farafiro]

Originally posted by Billy T
very nice indeed!

thx mate

[jimburton]

looks good to me:

winxp

opera 7.1 & ie 6.0

player is 6.0.22