Comments on: ComboBox text formatting in AS3

By: Mike L

Mike L — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:41:30 +0000

Am using AS3 combobox and all I want to do is have the rollover state of the text in the list to change colour. I don’t really want to embed the font. Do I have go through all of that embedding to change the rollover state colour?

Thanks,
Mike

By: Gabor

Gabor — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:52:50 +0000

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/fl/controls/ComboBox.html?filter_flash=cs5&filter_flashplayer=10.2&filter_air=2.6

Under Styles you will find:

EmbedFonts: If you set the embedFonts property to true for a text field, you must specify a font for that text by using the font property of a TextFormat object that is applied to the text field. If the specified font is not embedded in the SWF file, the text is not displayed.

Cheers

Gabor

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:07:04 +0000

Great! very useful

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By: Ruli

Ruli — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:29:40 +0000

Hallo, I’m having a problem that I do not understand…

I try to embed font in combobox, I already make CustomComboBox class. But the strange thing is that in Flash IDE everything is normal, but when i try in browser..the textField in combobox just disappear. It will appear when embedFonts set to false. I have the font in my library, and the font is working.

Is there anyone who faces the same problem? I try for hours with different techniques but it ends up nothing.

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:38:56 +0000

I found that I could not get the code as provided to work. The drop-down text would render, but my “top-text” would never show.

I had to use “this” instead of trying to reference the “textField” property directly:

this.setStyle(’embedFonts’, true);
this.setStyle(’textFormat’, textFormat);

Instead of:

textField.setStyle(’embedFonts’, true);
textField.setStyle(’textFormat’, textFormat);

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:03:03 +0000

Thank you for this lovely code. Helped me out a lot.

By: senthil kumaran

senthil kumaran — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:25:34 +0000

Really thanks ya really helped me alot

By: Thijs

Thijs — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:29:20 +0000

Thanks. Was one of the first entries in google for ‘fl.controls.ComboBox cellRenderer’ and worked perfectly.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:22:14 +0000

@Gilles Worked perfectly too ! Definitely the easiest and fastest way to position the textfield