yOOrek's Flex™ Adventure

Success – I managed to recompile the galleries

Success, I managed to recompile the galleries using Flex 3.2 SDK. See them here and here. The only thing that I still have problems with is embedded fonts in <mx:Linkbar>. Embedded fonts work quite nicely in other elements, but not in <mx:Linkbar>.

Here is the snippet for font embedding from as file -

[Bindable]
[Embed(source='include/fonts/Speedline.ttf',
       fontName='GalleryFont',
       fontStyle='normal',
       fontWeight='normal',
       mimeType='application/x-font')]
// You do not use this variable directly. It exists so that
// the compiler will link in the font.
public var embeddedFont:Class;

Here is the snippet of the stylesheet -

.headerLinkBar {
    fontFamily:         GalleryFont;
    fontSize:           18;
    fontWeight:         normal;
    fontStyle:          normal;
    fontThickness:      0;

    colour:             #808080;
    textRollOverColor:  #FFFFFF;
    rollOverColor:      #262626;
    selectionColor:     #262626;
    separatorColor:     #FFFFFF;
}

And here is the snippet from the MXML file -

<mx:LinkBar id="headerLinkBarThumbsView"
            styleName="headerLinkBar">
    <mx:dataProvider>
        <mx:Array>
            <mx:String>Arrange</mx:String>
            <mx:String>Stack</mx:String>
            <mx:String>Randomise</mx:String>
            <mx:String>Back</mx:String>
        </mx:Array>
    </mx:dataProvider>
</mx:LinkBar>

I think I’m coding everything correctly. It worked without a problem in Flex 2. You can see the same font being used on the slide/thumbnail. Perhaps there is a change in behavior in Flex 3. Sooner or later I will get to the bottom of this. In the meantime I have to put up with the default font.
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Without wax,
yOOrek

Tags: code, embedding assets, Flex 3 problems, fonts, Linkbar