--- In [email protected], "aceoohay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to create a Rich Text Format (RTF) editor in flex, is it doable? > > I was initially excited about the RTE component until I realized that > the output is html. Has anyone created either an RTF component, or a > reliable translation class from html to RTF? > > My end goal is to create a mail merge component where the users will be > able to create a document with tags that can be replaced with fields > from a DB. Once merged I want to send it to a word processor such as > word for rendering to the printer.
I've been pondering this myself. Keep in mind I know more about Word than Flex. I'm assuming you want to do this from AIR, since I doubt you'll be able to send to Word from a browser based Flex swf. What I would do would be to set up a template word dot that has fields that are set up to be dynamically populated. I'd set up this dot to read from a data source you created in AIR, either directly from a sqlLite database or something like a comma-delimited text file on launch (AutoExec). Then, once the data source is set up correctly, launch your .dot, it sucks in the data source and then either prints automatically or pops up a word form that allows further instructions. This is just a theoretical approach for me at this point, but it seems like the most likely approach, given the limits of my knowledge of Flex ;-). -Amy
