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Re: htmlText truncation when changing from embedded to device font

by turbo_vb :: Rate this Message:

That's all that I have Toby. Maybe someone else would like to jump in.

-TH

--- In flexcoders@..., "tphipps" <toby.phipps@...> wrote:
>
> Tim,
>
> Thanks for the detailed reply. Unfortunately, this only fixes half the
problem... With your recommended changes in place, the size of the
TextArea now restores after a brief flicker, but the HTML formatting of
the content is still lost.
>
> Even if I reassign the HTML text to the TextArea inside your
updateTextSize function so it happens after the font change is complete,
only the raw text appears, and the formatting (even non-font-dependent
formatting such as <br/>, <li> etc.) is lost. I read and appreciate your
point about the bold face text requiring an embedded bold font, but even
the non font-dependent formatting (as above) is lost.

>
> Any ideas on how to restore the formatting after the font change?
>
> Thanks again,
> Toby
>
> --- In flexcoders@..., "Tim Hoff" TimHoff@ wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'll let the engineers let you know why this is happening. But, you

can

> > get it to work with the following steps (hack):
> >
> > 1) Remove height="200" from the test Text control.
> >
> > 2) Add this function:
> >
> > private function updateTextSize():void
> > {
> > test.invalidateSize();
> > }
> >
> > 3) On the ComboBox change event, execute callLater(updateTextSize);
> >
> > Note: If you use embedded fonts, a boldface font must be available

for

> > <b></b> to work.
> >
> > -TH
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@..., "tphipps" <toby.phipps@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've seeing some strange behaviour with a mx:Text component using
> > htmlText.
> > >
> > > It seems that when the fontFamily of the text component is changed

> > runtime from an embedded font to a device font (or vice versa), the
> > content is truncated, and the HTML formatting lost. However, when
> > changing from one device font to another (or one embedded font to
> > another), it works just fine.
> > >
> > > Take this example (view source enabled but without the actual font
> > files included - any OTF should work fine):
> > http://dev.nx.sg/lab/fontchange/FontChange.html
> > >
> > > This app initializes the text component with some htmlText using a
> > device font ("_sans" in this case). Once loaded, try changing the

font
> > to another device font (e.g. Courier New or Myriad) with the
dropdown.
> > Everything's fine. Now change to an embedded font, and note the
> > truncation and loss of formatting.
> > >
> > > The reverse happens if I initalize the field with an embedded font
-
> > changing to another embedded font works fine but changing to a
device
> > font ends up truncating again.
> > >
> > > Anyone got any ideas how to make this work?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Toby.
> > >
> >
>

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