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TextField.getNewTextFormat() 727

TextField.getFontList()

Availability

Flash Player 6.

Usage

TextField.getFontList() : Array

Parameters

None.

Returns

An array.

Description

Method; a static method of the global Tex tFie ld cl as s. You don’t specify a specific text field (such

my_txt) when you call this method. This method returns names of fonts on the player’s host

system as an array. (It does not return names of all fonts in currently loaded SWF files.) The

names are of type String.

Example

The following code displays a font list returned by getFontList():

var font_array:Array = TextField.getFontList();

font_array.sort();

trace("You have "+font_array.length+" fonts currently installed");

trace("--------------------------------------");

for (var i = 0; i<font_array.length; i++) {

trace("Font #"+(i+1)+":\t"+font_array[i]);

}

TextField.getNewTextFormat()