I know this has been posted and discussed over and over again, but whatever solution i use (and there are generally two types), none work me. Even worse, all those examples were from as early as 2007 !
Now to the problem. I use FlashDevelop 4.0.0 RC1 and Flex SDK 4.5.1 (downloaded during FD install).
This is a font asset swf that holds my font to be loaded later in separate swf project in FD4. Example 1:
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class ExtFontLib extends Sprite
{
[Embed(source="../lib/6809CHAR.TTF", fontName='6809 Chargen', mimeType="application/x-font")]
public static var MyFont : Class;
}
}
Other method is slightly different. Example 2
package
{
import flash.text.Font;
[Embed(systemFont='Bank Gothic', fontName='emBank Gothic', mimeType='application/x-font')]
public class BankGothicNormalFont extends Font {}
}
And now test app:
package
{
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.text.*;
import mx.logging.*;
public class TestFont extends Sprite
{
public function TestFont () : void
{
if (stage) init ();
else addEventListener (Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
}
private function init (e : Event = null) : void
{
removeEventListener (Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
BeginProgram (); // entry point
}
private function BeginProgram () : void
{
loadFont ("http://127.0.0.1/ExtFontLib.swf");
}
private function loadFont (url : String) : void
{
var loader : Loader = new Loader ();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener (Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
loader.load (new URLRequest (url));
}
private function completeHandler (event : Event) : void
{
var LoadedFontLibrary : Class = event.target.applicationDomain.getDefinition ("ExtFontLib") as Class;
Font.registerFont (LoadedFontLibrary.MyFont); //PROBLEM SPOT
test ();
}
public function test () : void
{
var tf : TextField = new TextField ();
tf.embedFonts = true;
tf.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
tf.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
tf.border = true;
tf.borderColor = 0xff7777;
tf.textColor = 0x000000;
tf.x = 100;
tf.y = 100;
tf.text = "testing
1234567890
anotherline";
tf.setTextFormat (new TextFormat ("6809 Chargen", 16, 0));
tf.rotation = 15;
stage.addChild (tf);
}
}
}
I used source from example 1 and tried loading it in test app and got error
[Fault] exception, information=ArgumentError: Error #1508: The value specified for argument font is invalid.
It fails at line with “Font.registerFont (LoadedFontLibrary.MyFont)”.
If i try with example 2, i am loading with above line modified to “Font.registerFont (LoadedFontLibrary)” and get error
[Fault] exception, information=TypeError: Error #2023: Class ExtFontLib$ must inherit from Sprite to link to the root.
So in both cases it fails. Any ideas ?
