Thanks, Dan! I tried your suggestion and made a small SWF. I embedded it in a line of htmlText using the <img> tag.
<mx:htmlText><![CDATA[Total Amount<img src='Images/Superscript.swf'> Required Today: <font color="#ff0000">$0</font>]]></mx:htmlText> Unfortunately, Flex doesn't seem to render it correctly. The image only appears when I have a text control that is expanded to be several lines long. In other words, I can't just put a simple 1-line text field on the canvas and generate the text. I have to use a multi-line text field or text area, and even then the image appears at the end of the text. In the help, it says "The <img> tag is not fully supported in Flex 2, and might not work in some cases" and also "This tag is supported only in dynamic and input text fields that are multiline and wrap their text". There is an example about how to make text flow around an image. I can't really do this for a simple superscript footnote number, unfortunately. Does anyone have any other ideas I can try? It seems odd that something so simple should be so impossible! :( Thanks for any help, Pete --- In [email protected], "Daniel Freiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > to the best of my knowledge, there's not a great way to do this. My best > idea would be to create a footnote swf and embed it in the textbox with the > img tag. Each swf could be passed a number (and/or possibly some formating > information) and would simply display that number in a small font in a > textfield (autosize left). you would need to keep track of the number > within the textbox so that if one gets deleted the rest get renumbered > automatically (or i guess you could let them edit it manually too). > > - Dan > > On 11/6/06, thegators_2002 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > My Flex app will have lots of text that must be footnoted on the > > screen. Some of the text includes dynamically generated numbers, so > > the size of the textbox is indeterminate at design-time. > > > > I have read that superscript/subscript HTML tags are not supported in > > the HtmlText sections of the text controls. And, because the text > > fields are dynamically sized, I can't just pop a shrunken footnote > > image or text control on the canvas overlaying the textbox. Does > > anyone know of a way I could dynamically add superscript to a line of > > text generated at runtime? > > > > Thanks, > > Pete > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
