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Did you embed the font outlines?
tralfaz

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If you use a dynamic text font AND your system has that font AND you don't do any kind of tweening or effects on it, it should
display ok. If you have the dynamic text moving around or effects on it you need to embed it's font outlines to keep it from
disappearing. To embed font outlines, open up the properties window for the text and click on the 'character' button. Embed font
outline.

Hope that helps,
tralfaz

I've never quite dealt with anything like this before...I'll do my best to
explain it.

My Flash file takes info from a DB through PHP and displays them into several
different radio buttons. IE displays the information correctly, but FF/Opera
do not. I tried using static data, which displays fine in all browsers. But
for some reason this dynamic data I'm trying to put into the radiobuttons does
not want to display in FF/Opera.

I was told by one individual it could be a font issue. I didn't preload any
fonts. Regardless, I kept the radio buttons but used dynamic text fields to
display the data. Again, the same exact thing occured. I have the same
version of Flash Player installed in all browsers (according to this site).

Can anyone possibly explain to me why this is happening? Again, it's not a
question of the data not getting to Flash because it shows up fine in IE. Even
if I make changes to the text I want displayed, it shows up correctly for IE,
not FF/Opera.

Really hoping someone can put an end to my misery.

Tim Trice

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Embedding the font didn't fix it? Also, make sure you are not using this in your html.. it's real buggy..

wmode = transparent

I don't have a clue what you mean by that? I've never had to do anything like
that before? I'm using Trebuchet MS...but I've used _sans and _serif and those
don't work, either. I don't have a problem with the fonts with any of my other
files.

Tim

I'm using a dynamic text field...yes, but I'm not doing anything fancy with it.
It's just a poll. I want my radio buttons populated through PHP/DB so I use
actionscript to basically instruct PHP to get the question and answers, return,
and have actionscript populate the text fields.

Sure, you can view it at http://205.234.204.228/. There's no functionality to it past displaying the answers. As you can see, it's a pretty simple deal...all I wanted.

Are we talking about the weekly poll?

"What US State is most likely to see a landfalling hurricane?"

If so, none of the three I tested with did show something (IE7 beta2, FF 15.,
Opera 9) I can do more testing, but please confirm if I'm looking for the right
flash

Yes, you're looking at the right one. I'm using IE6, FF 1.5, Opera 8. But I
have the latest version of the Flash player installed on all of these browsers?
I thought the good thing about Flash was that you didn't have to worry about
different browsers?

Hi,

it seems you are using the object tag only, which partly works as described
here:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay

but to make it work the embed tag or a full implementation of the satay method
is needed.

That still didn't help...I made a new movie and loaded the loadMovie(path, 0)
into frame 1 as that page suggested and changed my movie data value to
c.swf?path=poll.swf. This is more of a pain in the ass than I could have ever
imagined. I wanted to use Flash so that I wouldn't have to redirect users to
another page (w/ PHP) and I don't know javascript. Apparently I'm going to
have to. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks to all who have helped so far.

Tim

Hi,
Tim, sorry for my last post, obviously you missunderstood me. I didn't mean to
tell you to juse the satay method - unless you really want to, if you're
looking for an easy solution, just use the standard way Flash does the embeding
with object and embed tags. The link was just meant to give you a chance to
understand the background if you want to.

It isn't always too easy to determin what it is someone is after, and what the
reason ist that he/she uses some solution or the other.

I hope that I didn't come across as an ass on that last post. It was just
getting very frustrating...not that no one seemed to get what I was saying but
the sources that I use (such as this website) didn't seem to have any info on
my situation. That plus I've spent several days this week dealing with this
and it just got the best of me so...yeah, I gave up. I have a PHP-alone script
running on it now so I'll just leave it like that.

I do appreciate your help though and others...it's the programming that
frustrates me.

Tim Trice

Hi Tim,

I don't think you came across as an ass! We all had our frustrations so we do
understand you (at least I do).
It really was tough luck, first somebody (with the best intentions - I'm sure)
brought you on the wrong track with the font thing, and you in turn put others
on the same trak by sharing that info.

I'm a bit sorry for you, as you are right, very special issues aside, not
having browser trouble is one of the gretest advantages of flash.

If you belive me and are still interested in solving the problem (or
understanding it) I can try to explain it to you some time.

Guys like tralfaz and me (and others) try to help, and it isn't alwasy easy to
guess with whom we are dealing, you seemed (and I still think you are) quite
knowledgeable so we didn't look for the more obvious things.

cu

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