[Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Mon Dec 14 14:21:58 GMT 2009

Put the gilsans res swf in the Xerte and .rlo dir, restart, new file, set LO def to gilsans, added text icon, add raw text, set embedFonts to 1, no text appears.
Set embedFonts to 0, text appears.

Oh well, not a showstopper.
I'll niggle at it some other time.
Thanks Julian.

Dave

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:11:19 +0000
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

I can’t remember how it all works, but I think the file is
copied for use into the app dir. Search in the source code for resources.swf
(in Editior.fla to see how it works)

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Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 2:10 PM

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

I
just noticed that the arial res.swf I compiled also was copied to the Xerte.exe
directory.

So I guess it overwrites any existing swf in the Xerte dir and makes a copy for
uploading in the .rlo dir.

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:05:27 +0000

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Erm, I think so. I tend to
start Xerte by double clicking an .rlo file - if there is a resources.swf in
the same folder, that is the one that gets used.

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Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 2:04 PM

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Let me get this right so I put it in the correct directory.

I make a resource.swf and it compiles into the .rlo directory.

I restart Xerte, and if there is no res.swf in the Xerte.exe directory, it
waits until I open a .rlo and picks that one up?

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:58:59 +0000

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

If there isn’t one, it is
picked up from the application directory when Xerte starts

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Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 1:56 PM

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Xerte needs to be restarted.

Does that mean the resources.swf is not picked up from the .rlo directory?
Where is it picked up from?

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:32:29 +0000

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Get it working without the
CSS, lets see where it’s breaking.

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Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 1:29 PM

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

>Restart Xerte to load
resoruces.swf.

Did.

>How big is the
resources.swf – does it look as though the font has actually compiled into it?

466 KB and the time/date is
right.

> The name might be
important – it’s usually (I think) the name of the ttf file itself, i.e.
frutiger.ttf, then the font is futiger in Xerte.

frutiger? futiger? what the
futiger?

>Attached is a
resources.swf containing gillsans – try that, I know it works: in the piece I
use it I have the defaultFont on the LO icon set to ‘gillsans’.

Will try.

I have the def set to MS Sans Serif, but I
thought the embedfonts and css definition would override it.

Maybe more css funkiness.

From:
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Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 1:18 PM

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

OK,
compiled Arial.ttf's into a resources.swf.

The font in that disp is being set by css:

ss16_text

{

  font-family: Arial, Helvetica;

  font-size:16px;

  color: #000000;

  display: inline;

}

If I set embedFonts to 1 on the disp icon, the text disappears.

My resources.swf is failing?

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:47:26 +0000

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

What’s setStyle()? Not one of
mine…

iconID.txt is the textfield,
yes. Debug(myIcon.txt); or even debug(typeof(myIcon.txt));

From:
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Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 12:21 PM

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

txt is the default textfield label then?

I had tried adding .txt and no change.

Does embedFonts have to be set 1 for the setStyle to function?

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:09:26 +0000

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

You can have more than one
tf, but you need to create them yourself (icon.createTextField…)

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Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 12:08 PM

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Thought
about that, but then why does this work?

page_prev_text_clip = icon.previousSibling.clip();

page_prev_text_clip.setText('<pgcounter_text><B>Page ' + page + ' 

It is overriding the text set in the text property of the icon, so I figured it
has to be targeting the textfield, as you can have only 1 TF per icon.

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:48:52 +0000

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Remember: you are trying to
talk to the icon not it’s textfield:

Icon.blah.clip() is an icon,
a MovieClip

Icon.blah.clip().txt is the
text field in there,

From:
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Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:46 AM

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Pi to the last digit.

I tried a few script attempts:

page_prev_text_clip = icon.previousSibling.clip();

//page_prev_text_clip.setText('<pgcounter_text><B>Page ' + page + '
of ' + page_count + '</pgcounter_text>');

//page_prev_text_clip.antiAliasType = "normal";

page_prev_text_clip.setStyle("antiAliasType","normal"); 

No joy.

A real situation, so a method would be great.

Or I can just do a function and pass it the textfield

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:51:49 +0000

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Nothing is undoable!

Either you can set the
properties from Xerte using script, or, more conveniently, you can call some
methods in the engine that we can add. Is this an actual problem you’re trying
to solve, or speculation?

From:
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On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 10:12 PM

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

I
had looked at the textfield settings, tried a few things, but no go.

Just wanted to know if I was attempting something undoable in Xerte before I
continued bashing about.

Dave  

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:47:56 +0000

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

I looked into it. There is quite
a lot of detail, but in the end I think I decided the default settings were in
fact pretty optimal for dynamic text - which we are mostly concerend with. If
you embed fonts, those options might become more meaningful, but, again, you
are fine tuning a pretty good default, if I recall correctly.

Read up in the Flash help for the textField.

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett

Sent: Sun 13/12/2009 16:36

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Subject: [Xerte] Xerte SA (standalone) anti-aliasing

Archives
do not seem to contain the term.

Am I correct in thinking it requires font embedding, and is therefore a bit
frowned upon due to accessiblity issues?

Cheers,

Dave

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