[Swftools-common] tip for embedding fonts and modifying text with actionscript

[Sairam Suresh]

For those bashing their heads against dynamically adding/modifying text blocks in actionscript with fonts embedded by swfc, here's a snippet of code that might help you out:
> .flash bbox=420x240 
>    .font helvetica-light "helvetica-light.swf"
>    
>    .sprite layer1
>     .action:
>       this.createTextField("text_1",1,37,41,240,44);
>       text_1.multiline = false;
>       text_1.wordWrap = false;
>       text_1.border = false;
>
>       format_1 = new TextFormat();
>       format_1.align="left";
>       format_1.font="helvetica-light";
>       format_1.size=22;
>       format_1.color = 0xFFFFFF;
>   
>       text_1.embedFonts = true;
>       text_1.text = _root.text1;
>       text_1.setTextFormat(format_1);
>     .end
>    .end
>    
>    .put layer1
>
> .end

The resulting .swf can be called with the urlencoded parameter text1 like so:

http://mydomain.com/test.swf?text1=blah+blah+blah

Of course, this seems like the long way around when swfc provides most of that functionality for you, but when I was writing a function in actionscript that needed a particular embedded font, without the 
text_1.embedFonts=true; line I was always unsuccessful. 

Hopefully this will save you some time if you're in the same boat.