The TextStyleClass - Embedding Fonts, Formatting Text With A Stylesheet

In this article I describe how to use custom fonts and embed them in a textfield. The class, which I wrote will do that for you. Calling this class you can:

• create a virtual textfield or use one from the movie library in a movieclip;
• position the textfield in the movie;
• set width and height or autosize the textfield;
• embed fonts;
• load an external stylesheet;
• add a UIScrollbar when the textfield is smaller than the loaded text.

We can combine this also with a movie, which contains all the fonts as stringy described on the Flashkit site.

Below is the movie, which has a virtual textfield with embedded fonts. The text source is an XML file.

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