Comments on: Zooming Text Area in Flex – messes up word wrap – bug??

By: Nirav

Nirav — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:18:06 +0000

We did it via Action Script.

By: Binu Moothedan

Binu Moothedan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:03:22 +0000

Nirav/Travis

The only available enumeration values for fontAliasType are “normal” and “advanced”. How did you set “animation” as the value for the fontAliasType?

Thanks in advance!

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:24:14 +0000

This is for anyone who may ever have this problem, within Flex now the property you want to set is fontAntiAliasType=”animation”

By: Gaurav Vichare

Gaurav Vichare — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:55:05 +0000

How to prevent Browser Defaults(ctrl+c, ctrl+p etc) in Flex especially in Internet Explorer?

By: angelo

angelo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:08:39 +0000

Nirav, please can you send me a simple example. I’ve tried what you suggested but i can’t access to the antiAliasType property of textArea component.
thanks in advance !

By: Nirav

Nirav — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:55:44 +0000

Thanks Till and Maliboo. Setting “animation” for anti alias solved the problem. The zoom works well now!

Whew!

By: maliboo

maliboo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:47:42 +0000

+antialias for animation!

By: Till Schneidereit

Till Schneidereit — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:18:55 +0000

That happens when you scale device fonts or embedded fonts with the antiAliasType set to ‘advanced’.
For device fonts, it’s because the Flashplayer can only tell the OS to scale the font to integer values, causing the glyphs not to scale smoothly during a scaling transition.
For embedded fonts with antiAliasType ‘advanced’ it’s caused by the font engine optimizing the glyphs and text runs for readability, e.g. by changing the hinting for different (rendered) font sizes.

Solution: Embed the font and set the antiAliasType to ‘animation’.

By: James Urquhart

James Urquhart — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:57:23 +0000

My Flex is very sketchy, but have you tried embedding the text area into another control, *then* scaling that?

By: maliboo

maliboo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:44:02 +0000

Try embedFonts=true