You can use an iframe to display html inside a flex app. Check out the IFrame component from here:
http://ccgi.arutherford.plus.com/blog/wordpress/?p=133 Also, I'm toying around with using Adobe Captivate to generate flash help files and then display them in flex. You might want to check this out. However, the current version of Captivate generates AS2 code and is somewhat difficult to integrate with AS3 in flex. There are several posts about workarounds with this problem. Adobe is supposed to make Captivate generate AS3 code with the next update. ~randy From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amy Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 2:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Create Help System in Flex - how to display html in a canvas or component? --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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? I think it's those people that bought RoboHelp.
