I'm embarking on a project which will use text from a mySQL database and I will probably want to embed images and have links in the text. The obvious way to do this is to encode the text as HTML, but my previous experience (with Flash MX 2004 Pro) was that the TextArea component was very broken and especially bad at rendering HTML. In my last project that used a ton of text, I think I resorted to using TextFields with TextFormat objects to decorate the text (bold etc.) and I made my own scrollbars. Obviously, I would prefer to use the prebuilt component, if it has been fixed in Flash 8. (The worst bug was that using the scrollbar on the component selected all the text and I couldn't make it unselectable.)
Have they increased the puny amount of HTML that is allowed in Flash? Have other people tried to use CSS in Flash? I read the docs and it seemed cumbersome but I have enough text to process in this project that it may be worth the trouble. If I don't mark up the text itself as HTML, I will have to do a bunch of string searching (which doesn't seem to be provided for with library functions in Flash) to locate the words that I will need to boldface, plus making them clickable could be very painful if I have to attach invisible buttons above the textfield, for example. (Positioning the buttons sounds very painful!) Millie Niss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sporkworld.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
