Flash - Adding a symbol at the end of a dynamic text string

Embedding the movie clip in the dynamic text field

Another method was to embed the movie clip in the text field like so:

Headlines.htmlText = "

Here's a movie clip symbol:";

(Note: for the above to work, you have to publish at a minimum of Flash 7)

This was pretty neat, but had one problem for this exercise since I wanted the arrow to appear immediately after the text (not on the next line). “In general, an image embedded in a text field appears on the line following the tag. However, when the tag is the first character in the text field, the image appears on the first line of the text field.


Flash can use multiple fonts within one HTML-enabled field.

First I had to create two “dummy” dynamic textboxes. In one, I embedded fonts for Wingdings 3, Arial in the other. Then, this bit of ActionScript did the trick:

Headlines.html = true;
HeadlinesImport.text = "Hi"; // Remove this string for HeadlinesImport to receive the text from flashvars
Headlines.embedFonts = true;
Headlines.htmlText = "

" + HeadlinesImport.text + " u

";