Sorry--got cut off:
function handlePaste( e:Event ) {
invalidatePastedText = true;
}
override function commitProperties() {
super.commitProperties();
if( invalidatePastedText ) {
invalidatePastedText = false;
//regEx work here
}
}
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Scott Talsma <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> If you inspect the .htmlText property, you should discover that
> bold/italics are simply tags (e.g. <b> or <bold> or <strong>), so they
> merely need to be included in your whitelist.
>
> I suspect the problem may be that htmlText is not populated on a paste
> event, and the clipboard contents may not yet be populated. So you probably
> need to schedule an event (callLater?) when paste occurs, or simply extend
> RichText, setting a flag on the paste event that you check for in
> commitProperties, eg
>
> function handlePaste( e:Event ) {
> invalidatePastedText = true;
> }
>
> override function commitProperties() {
> super.commitProperties();
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Scott:
>>
>> There are lot of such special formatting characters(like the and many
>> more used by MS-Word) and I cannot possibly identify all.
>>
>> However, as you suggest I can have a whitelist(which allows characters,
>> numbers, roman numerals, CR,LF, tabs), use the regEx function of Flex to
>> remove the non-storable characters. Yes, I need to tie this into RichText's
>> paste event as that is how they are entering.
>>
>> How do I mark formatting(such as bold, underline features) returned by
>> Flex's RichTextEditor as "flash formatting". I have not done it before.
>>
>> I appreciate your advice and time.
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Scott Talsma <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:59 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] Changing special formatting to regular
>> formatting in Flex.
>>
>>
>> I would approach this from the Flex side instead. If you have already
>> discovered that you cannot store the data in SQL, it is probably only a
>> matter of time before you find something that breaks the AMF protocol used
>> to transmit it.
>>
>> Have you identified which characters are the offensive ones? That is,
>> can you assign a unicode identifier to them? I am thinking that you could
>> use Flex's regEx to strip out everything outside a certain class of
>> characters, e.g. printable plus a few extra chars (tabs, CRLF, etc.).
>> Everything else should be replaced with "". So you essentially build a
>> white list of allowed chars, and remove everything else. You could probably
>> even tie into RichText's paste event, and prevent the offensive characters
>> from ever entering the application.
>>
>> All the formatting that Flex returns should be marked up using standard
>> "flash" formatting markup, so I don't think that you would have any issues
>> w/those getting stripped out.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The application is a Flex front end, Coldfusion 9 middle tier and MySQL
>> back end. I am using a RichTextEditor in the Flex front end text boxes
>> so that users have an option of formatting. However, some users copy and
>> paste content from MS-Word documents and some formatting like the square box
>>
>> 2010:
>>
>>
>> cannot be stored at the MySQL back end(version 5.5.27) so there is an
>> error when such formatting is tried to be added to the tables.
>>
>> I realize one way is to use the ReReplace function in Coldfusion to
>> replace the special formatting characters with blank, but since
>> there might be hundreds of special formatting characters like the in
>> MS-Word, I cannot not know which are the possible special formatting
>> characters which need to be replaced.
>>
>> I cannot use the Textarea.text property to remove all formatting since if
>> someone underlines or changes the color of text, that needs to be stored in
>> the tables so that next time the record
>> is retrieved, the underlined should show below the text
>>
>> 1. Is there a way I can convert just the special formatting characters to
>> regular formatting like a • which can be stored in the MySQL tables or just
>> remove the special formatting characters in Flex?
>>
>>
>>
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