Common Questions – Using Special Characters Like Õ, Ä, and Ü
The Common Questions series is exactly what it sounds like – a series of tutorials answering the most common questions asked by those who buy and use FlashDen files. These tutorials don’t require any knowledge of Flash. For more go to common questions.
One of the most commonly asked question by people who use FlashDen files is, “how do I add special characters like Õ, Ä, and Ü to my text fields. This video will show you how.
Requirements:
You need Adobe Flash for this tutorial. If you don’t have Flash, watch or read this tutorial first.
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nice one, I have tons of buyers asking this same question
good one Lance!
keep em comming….
Good video tutorial for FlashDen authors. Because I get tired reply to special character problems email. Thanks and please go on tutorial video series.
Interesting, but how do you achieve to do that when creating the fields dynamically?
Thanks !
Very helpful for both buyer and author
Thanks for this post Lance
Nice series!
The audio volume seems to be not enough.
Matt,
If you create the field dynamically, you don’t need to embed anything. The characters already work.
VF,
Sorry, I’ll try to turn it up for the next set.
Thanks everyone. I’m glad this is helpful to you!
@ Lance
When a textfield is made dynamically, it’s default setting is to not use embedded fonts, that’s different from not needing to embed fonts, since many projects need embedding
When doing it dynamically you embed the font into the library, then turn the texfield’s _txt.embedFonts property to true. Also make sure that the font of the text field is set to the identifier string you used when embedding the font into the library. But a google search will give you more info than can be told in this little comment box
Latin Extended A doesn’t really weigh so much so you could as well include the whole set to make sure, esp. for the dynamic content, e.g. chars like š,ž etc.
+ with code unicode ranges fail in Flash CS3 IDE that has a bug in regard to it. See embedded fonts in Flash CS3 IDE for more.
Adorei a esplicação, agora tenho todos os acentos necessários, como aqui neste texto.
Now I´m very happy to read on Portuguese. Thanks a Lot.