When using text in Flex, I commonly create TextAreas, assign marked up text
(htmlText property) to those areas and then apply a StyleSheet.
I couple of limitations that are frustrating. TextArea doesn't seem to
resize automatically. This means if I have a couple of TextAreas in the
flow of a Box, they may not be large enough for the text. If I assign new
text they do not resize appropriately. I don't find flash's textheight
calculations reliable.
The flow of text and media.
I do believe that htmlText can contain an img tag, making it part of the
flow. But the range of styles is limited.
In general, is there a good way, a best practice, to use marked up text and
other uicomponents in a flow? Can text wrap a Ui component that is a
videoplayer?
Also, can I can use an external CSS to style a TextArea with marked up
text?
I know that i can set styleName to one style definition. But the point is
to apply any number of styles to any number of tags.
__textArea.styleSheet = someExternalCss; -- ideally a CSS that is applied to
whole app without explicitly loading.
Any thoughts or pointers to resources are appreciated.
What I'm doing:
private var __info:TextArea;
private var styles:StyleSheet;
private var stylesText:String =
'.h1{ font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Times; font-weight:
regular; color:#ffffff; font-size:20; }'+
'.regular{ font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Times; font-weight:
regular; color:#ffffff; font-size:14; }'+
'.link{ font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Times; font-weight:
regular; color:#68b8d6; font-size:14; text-decoration:underline; }';
styles = new StyleSheet();
styles.parseCSS(stylesText);
__info = new TextArea();
__info.styleSheet = styles;
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Johnny Waggener
Software Developer
Multicast Media
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