I don't think Open Laszlo supports right to left text at all.
Getting Open Laszlo to support right to left text would probably take
a fair amount of work, but it will be easier in 4.0.x than in
previous versions, because it could mostly just be done in the
kernel. I bet a lot of text measurement code would have to be
tweaked, though.
So, Don, if you're interested in doing this, I'd say start off by
looking at
WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/swf/LzTextSprite.as
and its brother
WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/dhtml/LzTextSprite.js
On Jun 20, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Don Hopkins wrote:
Does OpenLaszlo support Arabic text in Flash or DHTML?
I copied and pasted some Arabic text from Wikipedia into this test
program:
<canvas
width="100%"
height="100%"
>
<text
fontsize="80"
resize="true"
>الصفحة الرئيسية</text>
</canvas>
When it renders, it looks a lot different from the same text on
Wikipedia or Word, with the letters in the reverse order (so they
are connected differently).
What does an OpenLaszlo program have to do to display Arabic text
correctly, that it loads from an XML file?
Is it possible to right justify filled text?
I presume the labels and forms elements in the user interface will
have to be rearranged and justified the other way, too.
Does bidirectional text work the same way (or at all) in the Flash
and DHTML runtime?
-Don
Benjamin Shine
Software Engineer, Open Laszlo / Laszlo Systems
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