I'm trying to figure out how to use small caps in text areas in AS3.
Right now I'm doing a work around were i wrote a function that replaces lower case letters with a capital letter in a smaller font size. This works OK, however the real Small Caps glyphs that are included in the font look better.
There is a reference here:
public static const CAPS_AND_SMALL_CAPS:String = "capsAndSmallCaps"
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/text/engine/TypographicCase.html
however, I can't figure out how to apply it to a text area.
If you are using Flex, you can do it through CSS or directly through MXML for the Label class.
.className {
typographicCase: "capsToSmallCaps";
}
or
<s:Label styleName="className" typographicCase="capsToSmallCaps"/>
It doesn't appear you can set typographicCase on a standard TextField, however. Looks like you need to use different components in order to utilize it. See this Adobe document
If you know how to use styles in action script, I would suggest you use font-variant: small-caps for the text areas.
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Can you give me a sample code on how to make a paragraph/text with text size and font, I only know the code that uses different sizes without font, and the code with the font but without resizing, here is my code: <p style="font-family:arcade classic", "font-size:40px">Use the arrow keys (on your keyboard) to move your frog, avoid cars, jump on logs (flowing on the water), and jump on turtles (note that every few seconds, they swim underwater, then go back on the water's surface again, if you are on top of that turtle and it sinks, you die)</p>
use CSS like
p{font-family:"poppins", sans-serif; font-size:2em;}
/* do not forget to import Poppins from google font */
You must use one single string in your style attribute
<p style="font-family:arcade classic; font-size:40px"></p>
You had a syntax problem. You should have used a semicolon where you used a comma as #farshid-mousavi said.
I have a bitmap font built with Hiero, which I'm using in scene2d Labels.
In a single Label instance I need to reduce the font's lineHeight value, but I'd like to leave the other Labels (which are using the same font) intact, so they should keep the default lineHeight of the font.
I've tried to simply adjust the value like this:
label.getStyle().font.getData().setLineHeight(localReducedValue);
However, this has modified all the Labels everywhere -- which, in retrospect, seems logical, since I'm modifying the LabelStyle itself.
Unfortunately something like label.setLineHeight(localReducedValue) doesn't exist, so at this point I see two possible solutions:
Create a copy of the font, set its lineHeight to the value I need, and create a separate LabelStyle with that font; or
Write a custom Label for myself which implements setLineHeight.
The first idea seems wasteful, the second is likely a bit complicated, so I'm hoping there's an easier way of achieving a temporary lineHeight in Labels.
Nathan Sweet, one of LibGDX's core developers has kindly suggested a solution, which is working perfectly:
Override Label#layout, set line height, call super.layout, set line height back. You need to use layout and not draw because layout computes and caches the glyph positions, draw just draws them.
You can change the LabelStyle of a single Label by doing something like this:
//skin is the skin that you use
Label myLabel = new Label(text, new LabelStyle(skin.get(LabelStyle.class)));
And then you can modify the style without affecting all the labels.
I am painting on a window simple html using QTextDocument::drawContents(painter)
I want to do the drawing inside some margins in the window but I don't see a direct way to specify the target rectangle of the painting (in the painter/window).
I guess a few ways to do it:
Using the QTextDocuments::setMargin (although this does not allow different values for left/top.
Placing the html into an styled <div>
Applying a translation transform to the painter.
But all this seems a bit too much for what I want to do and I guess if I a missing something straight (as you do with QPainter::drawText where you tell the target rectangle)
Set the textWidth property to the width of the area where the text is supposed to fit. The clipping rectangle you pass to drawContents will cut the text off vertically if there's too much of it to fit; you can't do much about that of course.
So, this would be the missing function you're after:
void drawContents(QPainter * p, QTextDocument & doc, const QRectF & rect) {
p->save();
p->translate(rect.topLeft());
doc.setTextWidth(rect.width());
doc.drawContents(p, rect);
p->restore();
}
Yes, you do need to jump through a few hoops, that's why it needs to be factored out. It's perhaps lamentable that a similar overload of drawContents doesn't exist.
Is there a simple css way to display text with every letter replaced with a filled square?
My idea was to find a font-family that has squares for all letters, but I didn't find anything like that existing. Google is no friend as it gives hits of posted issues with boxes that appear when fonts fail in some way.
Letters should be displayed as squares, not replaced with squares. Also, I need to be able to control the square fill color with the usual html/css.
I'm fine to use font-face, but am trying to avoid the learning curve for creating my own font.
Update: here is an example:
div.innerHTML = "some arbitrary text".
Should be displayed like this:
"■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■".
#NoobEditor is right although. Many online font editors available (e.g.: http://fontark.net/farkwp/ ), you can create such font family in few minutes and can embed with your app.
Get a square font, define it in your we page style, asign it to an object, a div must work, put your text there. Voila.
In actionscript 3, my TextField has :
CSS styling
embedded fonts
textAlign : CENTER
autoSize : CENTER
... when italics are used the very right character gets slightly cut off (specially caps).
It basically seems that it fails detecting the right size.
I've had this problem before but just wondered is there a nice workaround (instead of checking textWidth or offsetting text etc.)?
Initialize your textField as you always do, using multiline, autosize, htmlText...
Then do this little trick :
// saving wanted width and height plus 1px to get some space for last char
var savedWidth = myTextField.width + 1;
var savedHeight = myTextField.height + 1;
// removing autoSize, wich is the origin of the problem i think
myTextField.autoSize = "none";
// now manually autoSizing the textField with saved values
myTextField.width = savedWidth;
myTextField.height = savedHeight;
Not that it is much comfort to you, but Flash sometimes has trouble with this seemingly simple task. CSS styling of html TextField was a nice addition but it has caused headaches for text-rendering. In fact I very rarely use CSS for styling text for that reason. I can only imagine that combining bold, italic and normal type faces within the HTML causes Flash to get some of the width calculations wrong which causes autoSize to set the mask a tiny bit short. I hope very much that the new text rendering engine in Flash Player 10 will finally fix these issues (it certainly looks better in theory).
So my solution is never to use HTML with the exception being when I require <a> links in my text ... and there are even some tricky text shifting issues there. In those cases I avoid mixing different font weights and font styles within the same text field. All other cases I use TextFormat directly on TextField.
I suppose if you can't get out of your current architecture (for some reason) you could try adding to the end of your html encoded strings. Or you could manually set the width of the field and not rely on autoSize (as you have mentioned). But if you keep on the CSS/HTML route you may find another new and painful limitation just when you don't want it.
I've had issues with TextField masks behaving differently in the Flash preview, and in the actual browser plugin. Usually, and this is strange to me, it would appear more correctly in the browser. Have you tried running the swf in a browser to see if the problem is actually an annoyance rather than a permanent problem?
I had said this:
My in-ideal approach to solving this is to attach a change event to the TextField which always adds a space after the last character of the field. And then to remember to trim this space off when using the value.
But that didn't take into account that this probably doesn't have a change event and that it's an HTML rendered text field. To add a trailing space in the HTML text field throw in an again, that's not really fixing the problem.