Jason, Have you found a solution for this issue? I can't seem to make this work either, although I used to do this all the time in Flash.
Thanks, -tom -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:15 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Transform XML with external CSS styleSheet via htmlText I am looking for a little help. What was fairly easy to do in AS2 and Flash 8 is proving to be very tricky in Flex 2 AS3. What I want to do is assign a stylesheet to a TextArea component and then add text via htmlText. The text is coming from XML. In AS2/F8 I had a nice system were all my XML element names matched up to a style name in an external CSS file. styles.css SNIP [CODE] questions { display: block; margin-left: 30px; } question { color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10; display: block; } options { display: block; margin-left: 30px; } option { color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10; display: block; } [/CODE] SNIP from XML file [CODE] <interaction id="506"> <questions> <question>While the nurse is explaining ...</question> </questions> <options> <option id="1">Anger</option> <option id="2">Denial</option> <option id="3">Anxiety</option> <option id="4">Depression</option> </options> [/CODE] I could just assign the htmlText of a text field to the XML node, the XML element tags would be treated as HTML tags and the appropriate styles would be applied. I have read through dozens of posts in this forum about this exact problem, most people are just trying to get <a> links to underline. I have not found any solutions that make sense to me. The help entry for TextArea.styleSheet just points to the flash.text.StyleSheet class. That class has one example, http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/flash/text/StyleSheet.html#inc ludeExamplesSummary , but I have not had any luck in getting the Example to work. I am not exactly sure what to do with the code. I have tried to build a StyleSheet object in the <mx:Script> tag, and I have also tried to make an class file that has a method that returns a StyleSheet. The "addChild(label);" line in the example does not seem to be like a document.write as I thought it was. I can't get that to output anything to the screen. The constructor of the Class is firing however. I am controlling the styles of all my components with no problem from an external CSS file with <mx:Style source="styles/main.css"/>. I can assign one specific style to a TextArea, but not an entire StyleSheet. <my:Style> does not accept an "id" attribute and there does not seem to be any way to link that loaded CSS file to a TextArea.styleSheet property. I have read that AS 3 cannot currently load a CSS at runtime, that sucks, but I am open to a work around even if it means having to define all my styles in AS (ick). Here is the big QUESTION: How can I embed an external CSS StyleSheet into my SWF, give it an ID, and assign it to a TextArea.styleSheet property at runtime? If that is not possible, how can I create a Class (Styles.as) that will house all my styles and somehow return a flash.text.StyleSheet object that I can assign to my TextArea.styleSheet property? I seem to have exhausted the help file on this issue. Thanks for any insight you can give on this. --jason -- 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
