David, I have *NOT* used the Flex 2 RTE, but I have used several Flash RTEs. *If* the two are based on similar code then here are some of the problems I had as a developer and as a user (if not, just file these comments as "crazed man at computer"):
Text Selection Not Holding After Formatting: When the user selects text, clicks the bold button the text is made bold.Then the text isn't selected. So if I want to apply italic to that same text I have to re-select it. Users hated it. It had something to do with the TextField, but I can't recall exactly what (JesterXL, care to comment?) Native CSS-like output: In a lot of cases we lock down the use of fonts for our text entry (having access to 20 fonts is often a bad thing). I'd love to have the ability to store something like this in my database: <p>This is my <i>very</i> <b>first</b> paragraph.</p> If I can do that then I could apply CSS styling to the string and have it look great in the application. The problem is getting it into that format. On a project in 2004 I really had to do a lot of head standing to get it right. Having something better than getRichText() that returns a string with a lot of FONT tags in it would make our lives much better and save a ton of space in the database. getCSSText()? HTML support above 1.0?: There are a lot of people out there who would like to have tables and columns inside a Flash/Flex-based RTE. Embedded Fonts: The RTE that shipped with one of Macromedia's DRK's actually had code commented out for using embedded fonts even though they were listing that as a feature (and had it in the documentation). What was up with that? No idea. Must have been a technical issue. Superscript/Subscript Support: Yeah, there. I said it. And I feel better. Someone else will have to ask for RtoL text, since that seems to be a Flash Player download size issue. Let me also point you to this short thread: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/8332 That's all I have for now. Others may add or flame as necessary. Leif On 1/4/06, David Mendels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Can you give very specific feedback on what you need in the RTE? > > -David > > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
