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Flash Lite rendering quality and anti-aliased text

Flash Lite has three rendering quality settings: low, medium, and high. The higher the rendering quality setting, the more smoothly and accurately Flash Lite renders vector outlines; a lower quality setting results in less smoothly drawn outlines. By default, Flash Lite rendering outlines using medium quality. You can control the rendering quality using the SetQuality command (for more information, see SetQuality in Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript Language Reference).

Flash Lite renders anti-aliased text using vector representations of font outlines. If you want anti-aliased text to appear as smooth as possible, you should set the player's rendering quality to high. Rendering quality affects all vector content on the screen, not just anti-aliased text. The following figures show an anti-aliased text field (Arial, 24 point) rendered at high, medium, and low qualities:

To maximize animation performance and frame rate--for example, during an intensive animation or tween sequence--you can temporarily set the rendering quality to a lower setting and return it to the previous setting after the animation has completed.

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