FTETextField should support RTL, but doesn't support text entry, IIRC, so
I'm not clear how it could be involved in a TextArea skin.

-Alex

On 1/20/14 11:07 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com>
wrote:

>It does, but only on the device.
>As you said, it does not work on ADL.
>
>The example listed in the JIRA ticket uses the FTE-based mobile skin.
>
>So if it' sure that FTE-textfield based skins won't work with RTL text,
>and the workaround is simply to use the native stage text, then I could
>close the ticket.
>Or do you think it's worth investigating on the reason why FTE-text-file
>do not support RTL on mobile ?
>
>Maurice
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com]
>Envoyé : lundi 20 janvier 2014 18:52
>À : dev@flex.apache.org
>Objet : Re: Anyone willing to help out with these regression / important
>issues?
>
>Ah ok.  If ScrollableStageTextInputSkin works in RTL environments, that
>would be great!
>
>On 1/20/14 9:47 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Alex, I already did that, in the ScrollableStageTextInputSkin, but
>>using a bitmap cache of the StageText instead of FTE equivalent, so
>>that it looks exactly the same.
>>This is how it works now in the mobile implementation.
>>But the onlye "FTE-only" skin is still there, for compatibility.
>>
>>Maurice
>>
>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>De : Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Envoyé : lundi 20 janvier
>>2014 18:27 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : Re: Anyone willing to help
>>out with these regression / important issues?
>>
>>I could be wrong, but I don't think there is any reason you couldn't
>>borrow code from StageTextInpuSkin and the default desktop
>>spark.skins.TextInputSkin and fashion a skin that uses FTE when not
>>focused and a StageText when focused.  IMO, it only that Flex doesn't
>>currently offer such a skin that folks have to choose.  There could be
>>some rendering differences that are noticeable.
>>
>>-Alex
>>
>>On 1/20/14 8:24 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>> I have no idea how well FTE skins work with StageText.
>>>
>>>I am confused here.
>>>I thought that mobile could use either FTE (ie. Flex/AIR text field)
>>>or StageText (i.e native OS text field) but not both.
>>>What is FTE skins with StageText ?
>>>
>>>Maurice
>>>
>>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>>De : Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Envoyé : lundi 20 janvier
>>>2014 17:17 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : Re: Anyone willing to help
>>>out with these regression / important issues?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On 1/20/14 5:12 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>That's what I was trying to determine.
>>>>
>>>>My initial findings:
>>>>
>>>>-  it works using StyleableStageText-based skins on the device,
>>>>without even having to set layoutDirection,
>>>>- it does not work with StyleableStageText skins on the ADL (text in
>>>>wrong direction)
>>>That's because the emulator uses a TextField
>>>>- it does not work when using TextField skins ( text displayed in the
>>>>wrong direction).
>>>>
>>>>Do you mean it can't be a Flex bug, and it  is an AIR/FP bug ?
>>>AIR is working properly.  I suppose you could try filing a bug that
>>>the emulator should support RTL in the emulator but I think it is
>>>probably documented that it isn't supported.  Flex decided not to use
>>>FTE in the default mobile theme for performance reasons but that meant
>>>that RTL would not be supported by default.  I have no idea how well
>>>FTE skins work with StageText.
>>>>
>>>>Maurice
>>>>
>>>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>>>De : Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Envoyé : lundi 20 janvier
>>>>2014 09:20 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : Re: Anyone willing to help
>>>>out with these regression / important issues?
>>>>
>>>>I thought RTL didn't work in TextField-based skins.
>>>>
>>>>On 1/19/14 3:46 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I take this one for a start:
>>>>>
>>>>>FLEX-33972 - RTL text on iOS7.
>>>>>
>>>>>I will take more as time allows...
>>>>>
>>>>>Maurice
>>>>>
>>>>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>>>>De : Justin Mclean [mailto:jus...@classsoftware.com] Envoyé :
>>>>>dimanche
>>>>>19 janvier 2014 03:54 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : Anyone willing
>>>>>to help out with these regression / important issues?
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>We have a list of issues that need fixing for the 4.12 release
>>>>>anyone will to help out and fix them? [1]
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>Justin
>>>>>
>>>>>1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33952
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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