maxLevel (TextRenderer.maxLevel property)

public static maxLevel : Number

Sets the adaptively sampled distance fields (ADFs) quality level for advanced anti-aliasing. The only acceptable values are 3, 4, and 7. The default is 4.

Advanced anti-aliasing uses ADFs to represent the outlines that determine a glyph. The higher the quality, the more cache space is required for ADF structures. A value of 3 takes the least amount of memory and provides the lowest quality. Larger fonts require more cache space; at a font size of 64 pixels, the quality level increases from 3 to 4 or from 4 to 7 unless the level is already set to 7.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 8

Example

The following example specifies the maxLevel value for the entire SWF file, and then displays a text field with the value set. For the text in this example to display correctly, there must be a font symbol available with a linkage identifier of "CustomFont".

import flash.text.TextRenderer;
TextRenderer.maxLevel = 3;

var txtFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
txtFormat.font = "CustomFont";
txtFormat.size = 64;

var label:TextField = this.createTextField("label", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 500, 100);
label.setNewTextFormat(txtFormat);
label.text = "Hello World";
label.embedFonts = true;
trace("TextRenderer.maxLevel: " + TextRenderer.maxLevel);

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