On 1/6/06, Leif Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(Trying to address a couple of your concerns...)
> 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.
[snip]
The Flex 2 RichTextEditor doesn't have this problem.
> 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()?
Try this:
<mx:RichTextEditor id="rte" />
<mx:Text text="{rte.htmlText}" />
The text returned by 'htmlText' is well-formed XML and can be easily
modified using E4X [1]
[1]:http://labs.macromedia.com/wiki/index.php/ActionScript_3:resources:apis:E4X:overview
Manish
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