AS3 > Use different text styles (bold and regular) in the same dynamic text field

The easiest way to fix this problem is to create a set of textfields off screen. Each field will handle the embedding for a single font and weight combination that you need. So, for example, if you need regular, bold, italic and both bold and italic for a single font, they you will have 4 textfields - each with embedding turned on, and the characters you need selected.

Then you can simply turn on font embedding for any other textfield and it will be able to use all four styles (of that font).

Here is a list of the available CSS styles for TextFields in ActionScript 3. Sorry, there is no corner radius.

You can turn on a border for a textfield on the TextField objects border property. But there is not a property available to round the corner.

I suggest you create a new component and add the border yourself as a Sprite underneath the TextField. Something like:

package
{

import flash.display.Graphics;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;

public class TextBorder extends Sprite
{
    private static const CORNER_RADIUS:int = 5;
    // display objects
    private var background:Sprite;
    private var field:TextField;

    // properties
    private var _text:String;

    public function TextBorder()
    {
        background = new Sprite;
        field = new TextField;
        field.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

        addChild(background);
        addChild(field);

        // TESTING:
        text = "Hello World";
    }

    public function set text(newText:String):void
    {
        _text = newText;
        display();
    }

    public function get text():String
    {
        return _text;
    }

    private function display():void
    {
        field.text = _text;

        var g:Graphics = background.graphics;
        g.clear();
        g.lineStyle(0, 0x0);
        g.beginFill(0xFFFFFF);
        g.drawRoundRect(0, 0, field.width, field.height, CORNER_RADIUS);
    }
}

}