Transform TextField makes text disappears

[stefanpetre 0 Likes (Newbie)]

Hey,

 

So I have a small application where the user can add TextField and I use TransformManager to allow them to move/rotate/resize. Everything works OK, except on IE 7 Flash Player version 10.0.42.34 . Every time the TextField is transformed the text inside disappears.

 

Every TextField has font embeded. Here is the code I use to generate the TextFields:

var newField = new TextField();
newField.embedFonts = true;
newField.wordWrap = true;
newField.type = "input";
newField.border = false;
newField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.NONE;
newField.background = false;
newField.setTextFormat(defaultFormat);
newField.defaultTextFormat = defaultFormat;
newField.multiline = true;
newField.text = config.default_text;

 

Can someone help me? Thanks

[stefanpetre 0 Likes (Newbie)]

Here is the code for the default format I use

defaultFormat = new TextFormat();
defaultFormat.font = fonts['Arial'].fontName;
defaultFormat.size = 20;
defaultFormat.color = 0x009900;

[GreenSock 18,258 Likes (Superhero)]

Just because you set embedFonts = true does NOT mean the font is actually embedded. You must make sure that Flash puts the actual font into the swf. There are a few ways to do it, but what I typically do is make sure that I put a TextField somewhere in the swf which I click the "embed fonts" button for and select all the characters I need. Feel free to look at the Adobe docs to learn about other ways to do it too.

[stefanpetre 0 Likes (Newbie)]

Sorry, I did not mention that. I embedded the fonts in the library. I have 2 fields for each font in part, embed and all. The file size is around 1 Mb so the fonts are there, compiled.

[GreenSock 18,258 Likes (Superhero)]

It sounds like there must be something else going on in your file then - please post a sample FLA that demonstrates the issue (make it as simple as possible if you don't mind).

[stefanpetre 0 Likes (Newbie)]

http://eyecon.ro/designer/designer.fla

it has just the fields for embedded fonts and some things in the library

 

http://eyecon.ro/designer/designer.as

method 'addTextEl' (line 551) inserts the TextField objects and attaches it to TranformManager object

 

Thanks a lot for taking your time with this and if this issue is not related to TransformManager then let it be.

[GreenSock 18,258 Likes (Superhero)]

If you want help with this, please don't post your production file that has multiple dependencies on other class files, etc. that are not included. I could not publish your FLA. Please isolate the problem in a separate (extremely simplified) FLA and just post that so that I can quickly publish it and see the issue. Thanks!