If your HTML rendering needs are rudimentary, you can use HTTPService to
retrieve HTML files and use them for the htmlText property of the Text
control. It supports (but not that well) such things as unordered
lists, paragraphs and such. I've used this in combination with a vew
stack and button bar to display multiple pages of help text. It's crude,
but it works. Conceivably you could incorporate a Tree component and
use that as a menuing system to retreive content via HTTP and display it
in your content area.
Jeff
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 2:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Create Help System in Flex - how to
display html in a canvas or component?
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
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From: [email protected]
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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!
