When targeting your movie into flash player 9 (or lower), you can fall into issues with text transparency. If TextField contains not embedded font, by default it will not render transparency (alpha) correctly. Luckily, there is a solution for that, as simple as setting blendMode to “layer” parameter to your TextField. This solution was mentioned on Glenn Gervais blog plus there are some other techniques mentioned in comments, for example applying BlurFilter(0, 0) or cacheAsBitmap=true. Thankfully, once you start targeting Flash Player 10, you won’t need any sort of hacks.
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In computing, a quine is a computer program which produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. For amusement, programmers sometimes attempt to develop the shortest possible quine in any given programming language.
While playing with wonderfl I have found a nice ActionScript quine solution from yonatan, which I decided to shorten. It would be shorter code using trace() but than you won’t be able to log/see output on wonderfl, thats why TextField is used.
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This article helps you embed pixel sharp fonts (without antialias) into your flex apps. As far as I know you wouldn’t be able to do this just by direct embedding local font file into your flex application, but you gonna need Flash CS4 authoring tool. There are two ways you can make Bitmap text work in flex. You can use pure css method or actionscript method. The downside of both methods is, you have to define and export from flash exact font size you are going to use.
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