Mike... can you point to any of the suggested "workarounds" that 
Adobe has put forward?  We'd like to be able to support RTL text 
editing (for Arabic) in an application I'm working on.

~harris

--- In [email protected], "Michael Labriola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> 
> Unfortunately, no.
> 
> This is an area where I have spent countless hours trying to work
> around. Flash player has absolutely no support for right to left
> natively. Further, while you can manually do *some* things to fix
> this, ultimately none of the text components (input, area, etc) 
allow
> editing in RTL. So, you can *display* RTL text, however, you can not
> actually edit it.
> 
> Adobe has some suggestions for workarounds. However, they all 
require
> a significant amount of work and none can be accomplished directly 
in
> flash player in a real-time environment.
> 
> Sorry. This is an issue which has been the subject of countless
> debates and is really limiting the ability to use Flash as a serious
> development platform for true international solutions. Adobe is 
aware
> and we are all hoping that this can be resolved within the next few
> releases.
> 
> --Mike
> 
> --- In [email protected], "shemeshkale" <baldhead72@> 
wrote:
> >
> > hello,
> > can someone tell me if flex2 have an option of RTL text?
> > 
> > i need to use hebrew and arabic in my flex app but i know the 
flash
> > player do not have support for RTL text. or does it?
> > 
> > is there any way to work with RTL texts ?
> >
>


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