Change AS3 Component Font

Question

I want to change font name, font size and character embedding properties of a component (Combobox in my case) through Flash IDE (not in action script). Is there an option to do that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

No, you need to use ActionScript to do that. Here is how I do it:

package com.twoa.ui.base.controls {
    import fl.controls.ComboBox;
    import fl.controls.List;
    import flash.text.Font;
    import flash.text.TextFormat;

    public class MyComboBox extends ComboBox {

        private var textFormat:TextFormat;
        private var textFormat2:TextFormat;

        public function MyComboBox() {
            super();
            forceStyle();
        }

        public function forceStyle() {

            var f:Font = new Interface();

            var textFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat()
            textFormat.size = 8;
            textFormat.color = 0xffffff;
            textFormat.font = f.fontName

            var textFormat2:TextFormat = new TextFormat()
            textFormat2.size = 8;
            textFormat2.color = 0xffffff;
            textFormat2.font = f.fontName

            dropdown.setRendererStyle("embedFonts", true);
            dropdown.setRendererStyle("textFormat", textFormat);

            textField.setStyle("embedFonts", true);
            textField.setStyle("textFormat", textFormat2);

        }

    }
}

Answer 2

It looks that there is no way to skin font of default flash components. I ended up writing my own.