http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisawolf/4884633171/

It was a hoot, I’m tellin’ ya.

I’m working with FlashDevelop here and unless the font is set to be exported for ActionScript, it doesn’t work.

package model
{
  import uk.co.richtextformat.signals.SignalBox;
  import uk.co.richtextformat.signals.ISignalBox;

  public class MyAppsSignalBox extends SignalBox implements
        ISignalBox
  {
    public static const DO_SUMMAT:String = ‘DoSummat’;
    public static const DO_SUMMAT_ELSE:String = ‘DoSummatElse’;
  }
}

altho equally, that’s not ideal either…

One thing that occurs to me is that by removing the concrete Signal definitions you are swapping a dependency on a function defined by an interface for a dependency on a static string in a concrete class.

So, rather than:
signalBox.textDisplaySignal.add(onDisplayText);
you are using:
signalBox.addListener(TextProxy.DISPLAY_TEXT, onDisplayText);

Which means that the TextProxy class would need to be included. You also lose the benefit of strong typing for the Signals. I think that my system is far from perfect though, so it’d be interesting to see if there is a way to combine the two :)

To check, right-click the font in the library and choose Properties, then in the “Linkage” section, check “Export for ActionScript.” (If you don’t see a linkage section and have a button marked “Advanced”, click that button to go to the advanced view; you’ll see it there.) You may get a message “A definition for this class could not be found in the classpath, so one will be automatically generated in the SWF file upon export” — that is fine.

Thanks