You could use a LaTeX renderer to do this, which would be located on the server. I've used MimeTex and it's worked great for me. If you wanted, you could eventually port that C code to AS3 and do the rendering in Flex itself. That would be a major, major undertaking IMHO though.
Patrick mindmillmedia a écrit : > > I am the lead on a project that I really want to use flex on. > However, I have a bit of a problem. Without going into a great deal > of detail, I need to be able to generate and display mathematical > equations within flex (complicated ones). > > I had a few thoughts on the issue: > > 1. If I could have an outside script that could create the equations > and save them as images, it would be fine. However, it would have to > be web app - not a desktop one. If there were a library for PHP's GD > Library or something like that. > > 2. If there were a Flash Component that could generate the equation, > I could easily write a script to extract that data and save it in some > useful format. > > 3. If I had to, I could leverage the browser and use the IFrame > concept first demonstrated by Christophe Conraets. However, there is > still no widely supported way of displaying equations in HTML (yes, I > know about MathML - but it is still not fully supported in all > browsers without plugins). > > I hope someone has an idea of how this could work best. > > David Tucker > >
