Hi, Haykel.
In current builds of Gumbo, you can set all FXG text attributes (plus verticalAlign) on what we consider the Gumbo "text primitives": TextBox, TextGraphic, and TextView. You have to currently set them as properties, not CSS styles; support for CSS will come later, probably within a month or two. Higher-level components like the Gumbo Button, TextInput, TextArea, etc. do not yet support setting text attributes. You have to work on the primitive in their skin. This will be fixed in the same time frame. Astro's text engine is known as FTE (Flash Text Engine). It does not support a markup language. TCAL, the Text Component ActionScript Library, which implemented in the three text_xxx SWCs, adds support for a markup language which is a superset of FXG. I'm not sure whether we have published the spec for FXG or not yet. (Do you know?) I don't think we have a spec for the superset that TCAL supports, but you can see TCAL's API by looking at the ASDoc for the text.* packages in the Gumbo ASDoc at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref/. I'm happy to hear that you're interested in Gumbo's text features. I'm the engineer who is integrating FTE and TCAL into the Flex framework. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of haykelbj Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Text components of Gumbo Hi, I'm developing a flex app that should support displaying and editing arabic text. So I'm exploring Gumbo and the new Astro text engine and I'm willing to test and debug these features extensively! Any hints where to start? What I tried till now is to test the TextBox, TextArea, TextInput and TextView components. I can set visual text properties (alignment, font size etc.) on a TextView and TextBox, but I can only set text direction (ie. 'rtl') on a TextView. On TextArea and TextInput I can set none of these properties! Also I think the new text engine support a markup language, is this right (XFL?, FXG?). If yes is there a document about it? I'm using Gumbo from SVN and I'm updating daily! Thanx, Haykel
