Question

In textfield component ,there’s a class named TextFormat. TextFormat has a property named font which can let you set the font, but the help document doesn’t give any information about the font, it only tells you the default was “Times New Roman”, so I can only set ‘Times New Roman’?

Is there a way to list all the fonts available so I can pick up one from the list?

Answer 1

Have a look at Font.enumerateFonts() this function will give you a list of all available embedded and device fonts.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/text/Font.html#enumerateFonts()

This example first calls the static method Font.enumerateFonts() to
get a list of all device and embedded fonts. Then it sorts the
resulting Array of Font objects by the fontName property.

Next the example shows how to call the Font.enumerateFonts() method
with the enumerateDeviceFonts parameter set to false. The resulting
Array only includes embedded Font objects. (If you run this code
within an application that does not contain any embedded fonts, the
embeddedFonts array will be empty.)

import flash.text.Font;

var allFonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(true);
allFonts.sortOn("fontName", Array.CASEINSENSITIVE);

var embeddedFonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false);
embeddedFonts.sortOn("fontName", Array.CASEINSENSITIVE);