Hi Gordon, thank you for these explanations! Now I have a better overview on what's going on.
So I started my tests and I will use this thread to share my experiences (tell me if there's a better place). I found some problems that I will submit in the Flex Bug System. I already submitted one (https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-16315), more is coming :) Some questions that raised during my explorations: 1. What's the difference between TextBox and TextGraphic? 2. Why TextBox doesn't support the 'direction' property? 2. Why setting properties of TextArea's and TextIput's textView are not applied until the content is changed? Is this a bug or am I doing it the wrong way? That's it for now :) Haykel --- In [email protected], "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, Haykel. > > > > In current builds of Gumbo, you can set all FXG text attributes (plus > verticalAlign) on what we consider the Gumbo "text primitives": TextBox, > TextGraphic, and TextView. You have to currently set them as properties, > not CSS styles; support for CSS will come later, probably within a month > or two. > > > > Higher-level components like the Gumbo Button, TextInput, TextArea, etc. > do not yet support setting text attributes. You have to work on the > primitive in their skin. This will be fixed in the same time frame. > > > > Astro's text engine is known as FTE (Flash Text Engine). It does not > support a markup language. TCAL, the Text Component ActionScript > Library, which implemented in the three text_xxx SWCs, adds support for > a markup language which is a superset of FXG. I'm not sure whether we > have published the spec for FXG or not yet. (Do you know?) I don't think > we have a spec for the superset that TCAL supports, but you can see > TCAL's API by looking at the ASDoc for the text.* packages in the Gumbo > ASDoc at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref/. > > > > I'm happy to hear that you're interested in Gumbo's text features. I'm > the engineer who is integrating FTE and TCAL into the Flex framework. > > > > Gordon Smith > > Adobe Flex SDK Team >
