[mixin visuals]

this online flash font browser shows what your current system fonts look like in your browser

[NYCFarmboy]

awesome..thanks!!!!!

[Adam Betts]

Any Flash can view what's inside my Library folder?

[chris.p]

No- getFontList is a built in function to actionscript, and does only that- only returns a list of fonts installed as an array. MM are very keen on Flash not having access to system level stuff, as undocumented features of Flash 5 that allowed you to write out text files to the system hd, and the FScommand functions (which worked on standalone projectors) were either removed or the way they worked changed to increase security. The only other way Flash caan access your machine is with a Shared Object- which is the Flash version of a cookie.

Heres the blurb for the getFontList from the reference manual:

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TextField.getFontList

Availability

Flash Player 6.

Usage

TextField.getFontList

Parameters

None.

Returns

An array.

Description

Method; Returns an Array object whose elements are the names of all fonts on the Flash Player host system, including fonts in the SWF file and any loaded asset SWF files. The names are of type string.

[art_director]

Originally posted by mixin visuals:
this online flash font browser shows what your current system fonts look like in your browser

cool, thx.

[HeyMac]

This tool is fantastic! Many thanks for the link!