RE: [flexcoders] Re: Create Help System in Flex - how to display html in a canvas or component?

2008-10-14 Thread Tracy Spratt
..As far as Robohelp, they were acquired by Macromedia and so now Adobe has that too. Actually I knew that and was slyly hinting that Adobe has to tools to produce a full solution to the help-system-in-Flash-Player problem. I have googled for some indication that such an integration was being

[flexcoders] Re: Create Help System in Flex - how to display html in a canvas or component?

2008-10-14 Thread Brian Kurzius
I agree with Jeff. I have been building an app that includes an rss reader and found that html formatted RSS entries work pretty well -- it even properly displays links and images. The one problem (ironically) was that it can't display inline flash--like YouTube videos. So I tried the iframe

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Create Help System in Flex - how to display html in a canvas or component?

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Schmalle
I'm writing a component that will integrate help in applications using the DocBook xml format and an as3 parser - ui converter. This is coupled with an asdoc generator application. Patterns are based of of Eclipse's help system framework. I think I might release this open source some day. Screw

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Create Help System in Flex - how to display html in a canvas or component?

2008-10-11 Thread Randy Martin
You can use an iframe to display html inside a flex app. Check out the IFrame component from here: http://ccgi.arutherford.plus.com/blog/wordpress/?p=133 Also, I'm toying around with using Adobe Captivate to generate flash help files and then display them in flex. You might want to check

[flexcoders] Re: Create Help System in Flex - how to display html in a canvas or component?

2008-10-10 Thread Amy
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Displaying full html in Flex (Flash Player) is not yet possible. What are your requirements? The simplest solution is to use a separate browser to display the html help pages. The Flex side needs to know where