flash mask text
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- yarsrevenge
Does anyone know how to mask dynamic text in flash? I tried setting it to HTML text and no dice. I also tried searching for this and nada. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
- ganon0
embed the font....
- fate0
embed the font like ganon said, or if you want aliased text, you'll need to fake the mask by moving solid colors on top to reveal or hide the text.
- mr_flaco0
put the dyn text in an mc, mask that mc WITH an mc
- yarsrevenge0
my only option is to embed the font... but if I embed verdana... it being a system font, will it still increase the file size of my file?
- yarsrevenge0
flaco... I just tried that... and it doesnt work vato.
- Anarchitect0
you can mask device fonts [rectangular mask] since flash 6.
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/…this will not increase your swf file size.
- mr_flaco0
I swears I do it all the time.
- mr_flaco0
looking at my files now...may have missed a step above.
- yarsrevenge0
yeah... Anarchitect just posted that link here in this thread
- yarsrevenge0
thanks vatos
- mr_flaco0
oops, guess I should open my eyes wider ;)