Comments on: TextArea + HTML + Images == hell?

By: MYO

MYO — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:07:17 +0000

Did you see this site?
http://demo.riamore.net/flexdemo/rMate.html
The editor of demos is using the Text Layout Framework(http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/)
This demo helped me a lot in finding a solution.

By: civali

civali — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:50:27 +0000

Some help about how to load a html iframe with google maps using textarea flash 8 component please? tks

By: Gabriela Portilla

Gabriela Portilla — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:37:12 +0000

Hello to everyone! IN FACT WE ARE DEALING WITH HELL HERE.

The problem is definitely the TextFields rather than TextArea itself. I was trying to view an image through some html in an xml file. Everything seemed all right except that the image was invisible, it was there, because I could see the blank space that belong to the size of the image and the text wrapping around but the image was INVISIBLE.

THE SOLUTION???? Crazy enough. Delete the current textfield and create a brand new one. VOILA! I could see the image.

I’m just hoping for it not to disappear again. Has anyone a smarter solution??

Thanks for all your posts, the made me keep the faith.

By: Ry

Ry — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:52:02 +0000

If you use a tag around the image with a leading property of the image height, then the htmlText.textHeight behaves as it should.

This is some text.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:04:30 +0000

Ok Jamie, thanks for the update.

I’ll dive into that solution.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:20:53 +0000

Hi Paul –

This advice is somewhat outdated now — the best way to get Flash HTML to behave is to apply a stylesheet to the text field. Not only did that solve all my formatting problems, it stopped Flash from generating horrible HTML when I spat it out into a normal textfield.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:42:54 +0000

THANKS!!!!

I also had layout problems when loading text and images into a Flex TextArea as htmlText. This post helped me a LOT in finding a solution.

In my case I want the user to select parts of the text (TextRange) and then color it. This way they can give their opinion about it. (red=bad, green=good).

Problem is that after ONLY changing the color of the selection, the layout would sometimes change horribly. (Flash Voodoo indeed!)

The dirty-but-effective +” \n” solution worked like a charm… except ofcourse that after multiple selections I ended up with a LOT of linebreaks at the end of my text.

So, after playing around with it a bit I tried adding “”, which fixes my layout problems and seems to get stripped away automatically.

TIP:
If you want to see how horrible your htmlText in the textfield becomes, just read the htmlText into a normal textfield….

By: epox

epox — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:07:43 +0000

same thing in flex, i have done everything that’s on my hands, i have called all the methods for invalidation in the TextArea and even have copied the method sethtmlText in the text area but private methods an properties and even dispatched the dispatchEvent(new Event(”htmlTextChanged”)); and nothing!!!, by now Ralph meke my day with his hack, thanks Ralph!

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:49:16 +0000

Well, in Flex the TextArea dosn’t have a redraw() – Method, right? I solved it just by putting a
TextArea.htmlText += ” \n”;
after the TextArea is created. May help sombody. It’s dirty, but It helped me.
Cheers

By: Andrew Paul Simmons

Andrew Paul Simmons — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:32:08 +0000

Wow, thanks for the help. This just save me a lot of time!!

_Andrew Paul Simmons