One issue that does come up repeatedly in Flash development is how to find and change all occurrences of a particular font inside of a Flash movie. In Flash 3 or 4, you had to hunt through your movie frame-by-frame, movie clip-by-movie clip. In Flash 5, you can take advantage of the Movie Explorer's Find feature and just type the name of the font you are looking for in the Find text box. You can change all instances of one font at the same time. You can't change multiple fonts at a time. Exercise 3.4 Using the Movie Explorer to Replace Fonts In this exercise, you change all instances of the device _sans font to Arial (or Helvetica).
Although it would be nice to be able to globally change fonts in a Flash movie, that capability just isn't there yet. However, being able to find all occurrences of a font so that you can change each one is a powerful tool that was unavailable before the introduction of the Movie Explorer. |