Oh, and to follow up with some further information:
It seems to only encode those HTML entities when I use
TextField.replaceSel(). If I just add the <img> tag string on to the
htmltext field value, it works:
//works:
test_txt.htmlText += "<img src=\"mountains.jpg\" width=\"350\"
height=\"120\" />";
//fails - shows literal text, and encodes entities:
test_txt.replaceSel("<img src=\"mountains.jpg\" width=\"350\"
height=\"120\" />");
Am I left with splitting the string in two, inserting the <img> tag, and
re-assembling the string? Or is there a way to get replaceSel() to work
with HTML tags?
Thanks,
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning & Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason
>>Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 5:55 PM
>>To: Flashcoders mailing list
>>Subject: [Flashcoders] WSIWYG HTML text editor in Flash - follow on
question
>>
>>Getting back to this question I had back on Aug 1, thanks for the
ideas.
>>I've built a basic HTML text editor in Flash using the TextFormat
class.
>>Since I need to save the resulting HTML string back to a database, it
>>works great.
>>
>>However, now I need to insert images into the HTML - which isn't
>>supported by the TextFormat class. So I was thinking I could just
>>insert an img tag string into the textField using
>>TextField.replaceSel(), like this:
>>
>>test_txt.replaceSel("<img src=\"mountains.jpg\" width=\"350\"
>>height=\"120\" />");
>>
>>So that part works fine, but when I re-render the textField, the image
>>does not show (doesn't render as HTML), it shows the literal <img
>>scr=...etc. characters in the textField (even though it is an HTML
>>textfield). I thought maybe I needed to re-render the textfield, so I
>>left the frame and then jumped back to it, and it still shows the
>>literal HTML. So in testing the value of the html TextField, I found
>>the <> and \" characters I inserted have been changed to encoded
>>entities in the HTML string:
>>
>><img src="mountains.jpg" width="350"
>>height="120" />
>>
>>Why is that and how can I fix this? It would be pretty messy to use
>>the XML object to decode those entities - why are they getting
rendered
>>that way in the first place?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>
>>Jason Merrill
>>Bank of America
>>Learning & Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-
>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Booth
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:43 AM
>>>>To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
>>>>Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] WSIWYG HTML text editor in Flash?
>>>>
>>>>I just did exactly this, a couple of days ago. I created a class
that
>>can
>>>>apply any kind of supported HTML formatting. The idea seemed
daunting
>>at
>>>>first, but the class is relatively small. You can assign/remove
>>textfields
>>>>that it should "watch". I don't have it here with me right now, but
>>here's
>>>>the basics:
>>>>
>>>>It doesn't use replaceText at all.
>>>>
>>>>I have a switch statement for the various textformat options (some
are
>>>>Boolean (bold, italic, etc) and some have arguments (leading, size,
>>etc).
>>>>
>>>>When the textfield has focus use an interval to get the beginIndex
and
>>>>endIndex. You can clear the interval onkillFocus.
>>>>
>>>>Then in your setFormat function
>>>>
>>>>Public function setFormat (type, arg):Void
>>>>{
>>>> var temp_fmt:TextFormat = currentField.getTextFormat(beginIndex,
>>>>endIndex);
>>>>
>>>> switch (type)
>>>> {
>>>> case "bold":
>>>> case "italic":
>>>> case "underline":
>>>> //etc...
>>>> {
>>>> temp_fmt[type] = temp_fmt[type] == false ? true
>>:
>>>>false;
>>>> break;
>>>> }
>>>> case "leading":
>>>> case "align":
>>>> case "size":
>>>> //etc...
>>>> {
>>>> temp_fmt[type] = arg;
>>>> break;
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>> currentField.setTextFormat(beginIndex, endIndex, temp_fmt);
>>>>}
>>>>
>>>>This should give you a head start.
>>>>
>>>>- James
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
>>Merrill,
>>>>Jason
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:11 AM
>>>>To: Flashcoders mailing list
>>>>Subject: [Flashcoders] WSIWYG HTML text editor in Flash?
>>>>
>>>>Two related questions. In a nutshell, trying to make a WSIWYG HTML
>>text
>>>>editor for Flash 7.
>>>>
>>>>Question 1:
>>>>
>>>>Has anyone created an HTML text editor component or class of some
kind
>>>>in Flash? Basically, having a textfield containing a paragraph of
>>text
>>>>the user can apply bold, size, font, etc. to - I assume it would use
>>>>something like:
>>>>
>>>>textfield.replaceText(Selection.getBeginIndex(),Selection.getEndInde
x(
>>),
>>>>theNewString)
>>>>
>>>>or something to that effect.
>>>>
>>>>So to my second question, I was able to get the above working, but
the
>>>>html Textfield would not apply the new HTML tags, it would show them
>>>>literally when replaceText was used. Initially, I set the text with
>>>>textField.htmlText = myText and renders fine with the bolding, but
>>>>textField.replaceText() seems to not allow the textfield to show the
>>>>bold tags applied - it shows the literal tag. Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>Basically, would like to create a WSIWYG HTML text editor (flash 7),
>>but
>>>>from what I read in the archives, it's a lot harder than it sounds
and
>>>>maybe not even possible in Flash right now, but I don't want to give
>>up
>>>>too early. It seems that all the basic methods are available, there
>>are
>>>>just some quirks to work out with the Textfield class.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>Jason Merrill
>>>>Bank of America
>>>>Learning & Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions
>>>>
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