Comments on: Develop a Useful Font Picker App with ActionScript 3.0

By: Hollis roberts

Hollis roberts — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:24:38 +0000

How i get my embed font to work, i embed all the fonts that i want 1st direct into the library also selecting export for actionscript and then I replace lines 52-62
systemFonts = Font.enumerateFonts(true);
systemFonts.sortOn(”fontName”);

/* Convert the Fonts Objects to Strings */

for (var i:int = 0; i < systemFonts.length; i++)
{
fontNames.push(systemFonts[i].fontName);
}

With this
var allFonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(true);
allFonts.sortOn(”fontName”, Array.CASEINSENSITIVE);
var embeddedFonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false);
embeddedFonts.sortOn(”fontName”, Array.CASEINSENSITIVE);
for (var i:int = 0; i < embeddedFonts.length; i++)
{
fontNames.push(embeddedFonts[i].fontName);
}

By: david

david — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:07:42 +0000

Can someone help me please on how to get this to work with embedded fonts

please

By: jim

jim — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:51:27 +0000

sitll cant get this to work on embedded fonts only
it keeps giving me

1093: Syntax error.

By: Hollis

Hollis — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:52:08 +0000

I find how to show only my embedded fonts instead of system fonts, all you need to do is replace line 52-62 with

var allFonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(true);
allFonts.sortOn(”fontName”, Array.CASEINSENSITIVE);

var embeddedFonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false);
embeddedFonts.sortOn(”fontName”, Array.CASEINSENSITIVE);

for (var i:int = 0; i < embeddedFonts.length; i++)
{
fontNames.push(embeddedFonts[i].fontName);
}

By: Georgi

Georgi — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:32:05 +0000

Great tut Carloz !

By: Hollis

Hollis — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:38:57 +0000

Very cool tutorial, but if i want only my embed fonts in the picker

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:58:52 +0000

Thas is cool , good tutorial

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By: Cacao

Cacao — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:30:05 +0000

Hi, this is great. But what if i wanted to embed the fonts so i can use the swf anywhere? Is it posible?

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:22:09 +0000

I also get this error:

TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at Main/loadFonts()
at Main()

You’ve developed a very useful application with relatively simple code, but this isn’t as much as a tutorial as it is a description of all the code you used, and there’s a difference. A little more depth about what does what would be much appreciated. But thanks for the time, even though I can’t get this to work at all.