Setting antiAliasType for Flash CS3 Components
In a previous post on custom cellrenders in Flash CS3 I discussed my trials with replacing the cell contents of a List control with my own creation.
Recently I came up against a problem with using a stock List control. The problem is that the default setting for the textfield antiAliasType is NORMAL which means the type renders in a pre-Flash 8 manner. I want the antiAliasType to be set to ADVANCED to take advantage of the Saffron Type System.
There is a method to style the renderer in a list control:
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list.setRendererStyle("embedFonts", true);
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list.setRendererStyle("textFormat", myTextFormat);
The word is that they didn't have time to add "antiAliasType" to this API. The answer to my problem was to use another method that allows a crafty developer to extend CellRenderer and then tell the List to use this class with this line (note: be sure to import your CustomCellRenderer class):
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list.setStyle("cellRenderer", CustomCellRenderer);
Then in your custom class you need to manually set the anitAliasType of the property "textField"
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package ca.nait.d3.controls.video {
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import fl.controls.listClasses.CellRenderer;
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import flash.text.AntiAliasType;
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public class CustomCellRenderer extends CellRenderer{
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public function CustomCellRenderer(){
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textField.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
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}
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}
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}
