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Topic: flash text box problem, text doesn't appear

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fanboy

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Posted: Aug. 24 2005,13:33

I am not using MX, but the ming package from Sourceforge. It looks good, I can use actionscript, I can code in python, and it is free. Everything but those text boxes work. I had embeded the font I was using (the swf went up in size a lot from not using a SWFTextField) so I don't think that was the problem. I am going to download the Knoppix DVD and give that a try. It is big enough to have what I need.

I am also going to try loading in xfree86 into DSL. I see that there is an extension for it so that should be easy to try. mikshaw, was suse using xfree86? I can get t1 and ttf non-free fonts from debian for those which might solve my font display problems.

Thank you both for the help you have been giving me. If I find the answer I will let you know.

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Posted: Aug. 24 2005,18:06

I got those pesky fonts to work! I had to load XF86.dsl and nvidia.dsl, and after I got the xfree86 to work, I uncommented the line:

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font/Type1"

and it worked!!! I can see the text correctly in flash!

I am not a linux guru, but if anyone is could you please tell me if there is a way to do the same thing on the base DSL system? Is it as simple as adding the Type1 directory to a font path? Where would I do that?

Thnks again I am on a cloud right now.

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Posted: Aug. 24 2005,18:16

You can use the xset command to append or prepend font paths while in X:
xset +fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font/Type1 (to prepend)
xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font/Type1 (to append)
This can be added to /home/dsl/.xinitrc to have it done automatically.

I have no idea if the Xvesa server supports type1 fonts.

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fanboy

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Posted: Aug. 24 2005,19:49

it doesn't look like it does. I got this error

xset: bad font path element (#51), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax

There was a fonts.dir, and I ran update-fonts-dir Type1 before I ran xset without an error. If I loaded GTK & defoma would that help? How do you update fonts in GTK?

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Posted: Aug. 25 2005,08:43

Ming huh?
Anyone know if a GUI swf producer is in the works? Maybe a combo of a ming type thing and the likes of inkscape...

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