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Learning ActionScript 3.0, 2nd Edition
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Learning ActionScript 3.0, 2nd Edition

by Zevan Rosser, Rich Shupe
October 2010
Beginner
453 pages
15h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Part III. Text

IN THIS PART

Chapter 10

Part III focuses exclusively on text, and covers a variety of text uses. Chapter 10 begins with the dynamic creation of text fields and the styling of text elements using TextFormat objects. Using this approach, text styles can be precreated and applied to individual text fields at any time. For global styling, you can use a combination of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Both the HTML content and the CSS styles can be created internally or loaded from external sources. By using HTML and CSS, you can establish styles that apply to an entire project, if desired. Further, CSS styles can be edited easily in one central location, and all text to which the styles are applied will be automatically updated.

We finish the chapter with a look at Adobe’s new text technology, the Text Layout Framework (TLF). Built atop Flash Player’s new text engine, TLF was officially released both as part of the Flash Professional CS5 interface and as a set of ActionScript 3.0 classes, and offers Flash Platform users unprecedented typographic control.

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