Displaying full html in Flex (Flash Player) is not yet possible.
What are your requirements? The simplest solution is to use a separate browser to display the html help pages. The Flex side needs to know "where" in the app the user is, and be able to determine the url to display. Using ExternalInterface you can exercise quite a bit of control over that window's behavior. Doing it all in Flex will be more difficult, primarily on the editing side. Dynamic display based on xml content is easy, but building a dynamic layout that looks like a help system might be a bit tricky. Directly editing xml files is not advised for non-developers, so you would need some king of wysiwyg editor... I would really like to see a Flex integration of something like RoboHelp. Who owns RoboHelp anyway? Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of scottyale2008 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 6:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Create Help System in Flex - how to display html in a canvas or component? I've built a flex gui that I want to display html files (or least that was my original thought). I tried doing some of the IFrame techniques but it doesn't seem to work on a mac. Anyway, the end-goal is for creating a help system. When certain links are clicked, I just want to display text in panel or component. The html files (or text files) would be separate so they can be easily edited and/or changed without a recompile of the swf. Should I try doing the external files in html, txt, or xml files? If XML, would I just fill up the node with pages of the text that represent the text? Sure I could do this with an html editor without flex, but I want this in a flex app!
