The tests proved that the tags where there and that the css was applied but I was still having the issue. So I just tried other tags and to my slight surprise the other tags worked. It appears that actionscript will not style “b” and “i” tags but will style “em” and “strong” tags. It will still interpet the “b” and “i” tags and apply their default styling it just will not let you overwrite those defaults with css. Sounds like either a bug or an undocumented exclusion… Either way very annoing and the manual is very unfriendly and slow. In fact online help through their livdocs was faster than through the program… Great manuals designed to be usable make or break software in the long run and this cannot be a good sign for Adobe. I’ve been playing/using flash since 2000 and their CS5 manual/help is much worse in terms of usability than their help was in 2000.

If you want to see a demo showing this issue try out the code below:

...
 
var newStyle:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
var styleObj:Object = new Object();
styleObj.fontStyle = 'normal';
styleObj.color = '#660066';
styleObj.display = 'inline';
 
newStyle.setStyle("b", styleObj);
newStyle.setStyle("i", styleObj);
newStyle.setStyle("strong", styleObj);
newStyle.setStyle("em", styleObj);
 
text_field.styleSheet = newStyle;
text_field.htmlText = '<b>Hi</b> <i>World!</i> <strong>Hi</strong> <em>World!</em>';
 
...

The output should look something like this:
Hi World! Hi World!

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Team Visualization Interface

As robotic systems encompass larger numbers of individual robotic agents, interface design must provide better visual representations that account for factors affecting situational awareness. This project investigated different robotic team visualizations that varied in how much information was displayed: only individual robots, individual robots connected via a semitransparent team shape, and a solid team shape. The evaluation results revealed that the two visualizations that utilized a team shape were strongly preferred over the visualization that displayed only individual robots.

Related Papers:

Humphrey, C. M., Gordon, S. M., & Adams, J. A. (2006). Visualization of Multiple Robots During Team Activities. In Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Proceedings (Vol. 50, pp. 651-655).

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