Have you seen http://flashtexteditor.com/ ? I think it still beats the Flex 2 RichTextEditor, if only because it supports inserting <img> tags. If you go to flashtexteditor.com be sure to select "Click for Live Demo" halfway down the left-hand column.
And, umm, have you seen what you get as output on RichTextEditor.htmlText?
You might want to review the following thread on this list last month:
www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg37427.html
Also, I tried adding the following on the RichTextEditor LiveDocs page but it ended up on the bottom of the related Class TextArea page :
This is a note on the htmlText property of the RichTextEditor.
When using the RichTextEditor for authoring htmlText that is to later be rendered by browsers, you might want to review this TechNote: www.adobe.com/go/tn_14808 This TechNote details what subset of HTML tags are supported and how.
fyi ... One potential gotcha is that Flash/Flex may be unique in using point sizes on the <font> tag's size attribute. e.g. <font size="point sizes">
As the TechNote tn_14808 says:
The absolute point sizes used by the Flash Player are not the same as the relative font sizes used in standard HTML. In a web browser, <FONT SIZE=2> indicates a font size that is one point smaller than the browser's default font size. The Flash Player would interpret the tag literally as a font that is 2 pixels in height.
So where the RichTextEditor might create the following:
<FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10">
To match Flash/Flex's rendering of this, other HTML renderers would need:
<FONT FACE="Verdana" STYLE="font-size:10pt">
The player is pretty fast these days.� I mocked up sucking in XHTML, generating a Flex widget for each HTML Tag, parsing the CSS file and applying it and it is pretty fast, so there's always hope for better integration in the future.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of supertodda
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Junk E-Mail - MED] [flexcomponents] Re: WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor for Flex 2
Maybe this is something that will be possible when Apollo comes out?
--- In [email protected], "Shannon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The technical problem behind such an editor is that _javascript_/dhtml
editors
> have a unique advantage... The browser the user is using has a HTML/CSS
> rendering engine built in and available for such use. Now, imagine
trying to
> squeeze a rendering engine into Flash Player 9, and what a mess that
could
> turn out to be, not to mention a much larger download.
>
> Shan
>
> _____
>
> From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of supertodda
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:35 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Junk E-Mail - MED] [flexcomponents] Re: WYSIWYG Rich Text
Editor
> for Flex 2
>
>
>
> Thanks for your post.
>
> This is a bit worrisome. I always wondered why there isn't a good
> WYSIWYG rich text editor in flash / flex. I do know of the flash
> based Obedit (HYPERLINK
>
"http://www.oblius.com/?projects.obedit" http://www.oblius.-com/?projects.-ob
> edit) , which is
> better, but still sort of basic compared to the many many _javascript_ /
> dhtml editors for the web. To compete with the likes of AJAX, Adobe
> might want to consider creating a component like this. Is there an
> official Adobe response, or do I need to post on an Adobe site to get
> an official response? Does anybody else find their customers needing
> a good WYSIWYG Rich Text component?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --- In HYPERLINK
> "mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroup s.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED],
> "Flex Brasil" <flex@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I�m not from Adobe, but I�m developing a richer editor in Flex 2.
> > My experiments show that Flash Player is no fast enougth for this,
> > unless it be implemented on the core of Flash Player.
> > The TextField and CSS suport is very poor.
> >
> > On 9/19/06, supertodda <todd@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is there anybody out there developoing a full featured WYSIWYG rich
> > > text editor component for flex 2 (with spell checking, tables, etc)?
> > > The one that ships with flex builder 2 is very basic and needs much
> > > improvement to get to the level that customers are expecting. Is
> > > anybody at Adobe working on this?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
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