TechNote (Archived)

Font properties return null in Flash Player 8

Issue

Macromedia Flash Player 8 returns œnull when attempting to get the TextFormat.font property of an embedded font. Flash Player 7 returned the font name being used.

Reason

This is a known issue with the Flash Player.

(Ref 140614)

Solution

To ensure you get the font name to display using the.font() property simply call the method on a particular character as opposed to the whole object (as seen below).

The code below will return "null":

var obj = fontField.getTextFormat();

The code that will return the correct text property is:

var obj = fontField.getTextFormat(0);