Issues with embeding fonts for Buttons in Flex
Sometimes I feel that I suffer so that the rest of you don’t have to. When I run across one of those maddening, “but this should work” issues I always try to blog about it so that you – the reader – won’t have to suffer as I have. And I have, suffered greatly today. :-)
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Here to the right we have two nearly identical Flex projects. The only difference is that the one on bottom has one line commented out of the CSS: fontWeight: normal;
It turns out that if you want to embed the font for a <mx:Button> you need to set the fontWeight. Yeah, it took me about 2 hours of trial and error to fix it. What really got me was that the embedding worked fine for the <mx:TextArea> all along. Go figure.
That’s it. So why does the fontWeight have to be “normal” in order for the <mx:Button> to get it’s embeded font? In the immortal words of Kyle Reese, “I don’t know. I didn’t build the fucking thing!”
Seriously, why does there have to be a declaration that the fontWeight has to be normal? Isn’t that the default? And yes, changing it to bold breaks it.
Perhaps I’m missing something. Perhaps the Flex team isn’t out to confuse and confound me on a daily basis. If so please enlighten me in the comments. Until then I’m just going to assume that Deepa did this just to drive me mad. Mad I say. Mad, mad, MAD! :-)
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