This seems to keep coming up, and I keep seeing and hearing that it’s not possible, or that you have to embed fonts.. well.. there’s always a hack, and hopefully a better way. See what I found and tried here.
alpha on dynamic text in Flash? .. with system fonts? Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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28 Mar 2007 at 12:03 pm | #
Isn't it nice to find hacks like this? I accidentally found the same thing last year: http://polygeek.com/253_adobeflash/actionscript_fading-and-masking-with-device-fonts
On the plus side of the necessity of needing to use a filter for the technique to work is that the blur filter at a very low setting does an okay job an anti-aliasing the text.
26 Jul 2007 at 09:32 am | #
I’ve never used BitmapInstance before. I took a quick look at it and didn’t see anything that would work but I’m not 100% certain.
11 Sep 2007 at 01:26 pm | #
Fantastic! I was racking my brain for days trying to work out a way to fade dynamic textfields. It seems rather rubbish that you have to resort to a hack rather having it built in. There's even an 'alpha' property for the textfield!
Anyways, thanks again for the solution. You saved my bacon. ^_^