The goal is to create an open source component which would work with OpenLaszlo 5.0. Using the TLF would solve some of the problems of the existing OpenLaszlo text component, like + rotated text will be rendered with low quality if the TLF is not used + performance improvements with the TLF cannot be utilized + no support for text wrapping around floating images (will be available in TLF 2.0 with Flex 4.5) + no support for multiple columns in text
Some of the features of the TLF include: + Bidirectional text, vertical text and over 30 writing scripts including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, and others + Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and linked containers + Vertical text, Tate-Chu-Yoko (horizontal within vertical text) and justifier for East Asian typography + Rich typographical controls, including kerning, ligatures, typographic case, digit case, digit width and discretionary hyphens + Cut, copy, paste, undo and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for editing + Rich developer APIs to manipulate text content, layout, markup and create custom text components + ActionScript-based object-oriented model for rich text layout enabling live updates If there would be support from Laszlo, the component could be contributed to OpenLaszlo. If there's no support from Laszlo, I'd prefer to release the component as open source on Github. - Raju On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Raju Bitter <[email protected]> wrote: > Would anyone else from the community be interested in working on a > rich text editor component for the Flash 10 runtime? Taking full > advantage of the Adobe Text Layout Framework? If you haven't seen > Adobe TLF in action, check out this open source demo of an advanced > text editor: > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/demos/ > > - Raju >
