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

Bart Claessens — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:50:42 +0000

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

A quicktip post wouldn’t be a quicktip post without a solution. So, here’s one of the tricks you might give a go: increase the rightMargin property of the TextField to a small value like 1 or 2.

var textFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
textFormat.rightMargin = 1;
 
textField.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
textField.gridFitType = GridFitType.SUBPIXEL;
textField.embedFonts = true;
textField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.CENTER;
textField.defaultTextFormat = textFormat;
textField.setTextFormat(textFormat);

Hope this helps!

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