Cool problem.
If you're willing to write some code, I think its entirely feasible to
do this in AS3. Rendering MathML in Actionscript would be a really fun
project!
-rg
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From: [email protected]
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Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 2:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Displaying Mathematical Formulas in Flex
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
