Embedding and animating fonts in a Flex application

By John Wilker | Jan 23, 2008

In this example we embed a font (the awesome “Base 02″ PC TrueType font (TTF) from http://www.stereo-type.net/), animate it using the Zoom effect and the Elastic.easeOut easing method. We also set the rotation and alpha properties (which you can…

Specifying certain unicode-ranges for embedded fonts

By John Wilker | Jan 23, 2008

you want to embed the numbers 0-9, you would click on “0″ and note it’s Unicode value (U+0030), then click on “9″ and do the same (U+0039). Now, in your Flex application, you would specify this range in the @font-family style block like so…

Styling the Flex Alert control

By John Wilker | Jan 23, 2008

This is a more complex version of my previous example. This time in addition to making the Alert control’s text non-selectable, we use an embedded font for the Alert title, message, buttons, as well as edit the drop shadow, remove the rounded corn…

Flex 3 (Beta 3) Badge.swf don’t like spaces!

By John Wilker | Jan 18, 2008

We just recently were challenged with trying to update to the latest Flex beta, and there have been a few changes to the way the seamless install badge.swf works. For one thing, this program now goes out and talks to an air.swf hosted by Adobe. The s…

amfphp/flex/cairngorm Codegen - Source Available on Google Code

By John Wilker | Jan 5, 2008

I’ve had quite a few people ask if they could get their hands on the php source for the code generator tool I published back in October here. My intention has always been to eventually get this out to the community, however the last couple months have…

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