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Quicktip #6: fixing the cut off character on embedded-font-textfields

Posted by Bart Claessens on January 07, 2010
ActionScript 3, Flash, Flex, QuickTips / 1 Comment

As we all know, Flash has these crazy bugs nobody ever understands. One of those is the fact that the last character of a dynamic textfield (which has been set to “AutoSize”) gets cut off when you’re using an embedded font. Up till now I still don’t understand what kind of situation leads to this exceptional behavior. The only thing I can say is that Flash Player fails to determine the correct text length which screws up the textfield width to be shorter than it has to be.

Example:

Blurred/Cut Off Characters

Blurred/Cut Off Characters


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