mask layer hides labels, button text, and selected text for combobox

[NorthStarDA]

does anyone know how to get flash to stop hiding text that resides on movie clips that have a mask layer over them? the masks appear to work fine but hide this text and i cannot figure out how to get it to stop.

thx

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[oldnewbie]

Dynamic text?

If so, under a mask, the font outlines must be embedded, for the text to show up.

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[NorthStarDA]

the comboboxes get loaded with actionscript, but it's not dynamic text in the labels and button text. what to do about static text in this situation?

thanks

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[oldnewbie]

A bit of confusion in your post in reference to your thread's title...

Are you only talking about combo boxes text elements under a masking layer, or also of standard buttons and normal text boxes?

Are you on MX, MX2004, or Flash 8?

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[NorthStarDA]

sorry for the confusion, i am on flash pro 8.

from what i've seen so far, label components are hidden, as are the selected value of a combobox (when the list is expanded it displays fine), and the text of a standard button component are all not displayed when they are on a masked layer.

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[NorthStarDA]

any takers on this one? it's an issue easily reproduced.

just make a new .fla, add some comboboxes, buttons, and labels to the stage, create a mask layer on top of the first layer that covers those objects, preview the movie and the text does not show.

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[oldnewbie]

I'm sure there's a workaround, but I'm not familiar with AS2.0 components. With AS1.0 components, all you had to do was edit the label component, so that the font could be change from a device font (not embeddable) to an embeddable one.

But I haven't got around facing that challenge yet with AS2.0 components...


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[kennethkawamoto]

As oldnewbie said you must embed the font.

[tt]//
comboBox.setStyle("embedFonts", true);
comboBox.setStyle("fontFamily", "comicSans");
//[/tt]

"comicSans" is the linkage ID of the font symbol.

Kenneth Kawamoto

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