# What isnt my textfield showing in OSx only?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-isnt-my-textfield-showing-in-osx-only/264506>\
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**Created:** [June 26, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-isnt-my-textfield-showing-in-osx-only/264506 "2008-06-26T18:55:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![geestring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@geestring](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/geestring)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-isnt-my-textfield-showing-in-osx-only/264506/1 "2008-06-26T18:55:10Z")

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I used firefox and ie7 on my windows machine, and this textfield with a xml title works great.

```
_global.fabricname_info = titleHolder.attachMovie("fabricname_info", "fabricname_info", 0);
fabricname_info.createTextField("fabric_name",0,-160,-45,325,40);//create Textfield in title_bg
fabricname_info.fabric_name.text = theTitle;
var nameformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();//start format for fabric name 
nameformat.size = theTitle_Size;
nameformat.color = 0x666666;
nameFormat.font = "Book Antiqua-12";
fabricname_info.fabric_name.setTextFormat(nameformat);
fabricname_info.fabric_name.embedFonts = true;
fabricname_info.fabric_name.border = false;

```

I used safari, and firefox on osx and the title doesnt show.  
And this isnt the only textfield in the flash site. The rest of the similarily loaded textfields work fine.

[http://adamgee.ca/hazelton/menu.html](http://adamgee.ca/hazelton/menu.html)  
if you have osx try it, click a fabric, and look for the top title.

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**Author:** ![Adam1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adam1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Adam1)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-isnt-my-textfield-showing-in-osx-only/264506/2 "2008-06-26T19:00:13Z")

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That is very weird - didn’t show on my Mac with Opera, Safari and Firefox - but did show on Windows with IE & Opera…hmmm

also…holy long time to load the site.

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**Author:** ![geestring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@geestring](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/geestring)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-isnt-my-textfield-showing-in-osx-only/264506/3 "2008-06-26T19:09:14Z")

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it is weird. doesnt make any sense to me. I’ve updated the flash players.

yea i know it takes too long to load. I really like the noise in the background, but i guess i must sacrifice it and use a vector gradient or something.

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**Author:** ![Adam1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adam1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Adam1)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-isnt-my-textfield-showing-in-osx-only/264506/4 "2008-06-26T19:17:53Z")

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Sorry, I wish I had an answer as to why that might be happening. If it was just not working in IE, we could just blame IE…but this is something totally different :lol:

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**Author:** ![geestring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@geestring](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/geestring)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-isnt-my-textfield-showing-in-osx-only/264506/5 "2008-06-26T21:21:39Z")

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well it turns out it was the embedFonts = true;

I guess you cant embed book antiqua? But all the other textfields are embeded book antiqua… exactly the same way!!!

gragh!

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**Author:** ![Adam1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adam1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Adam1)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-isnt-my-textfield-showing-in-osx-only/264506/6 "2008-06-26T22:06:47Z")

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Wow…now that makes absolutely zero sense. Glad you got it figured though :thumb: