If you provide a button, you can use the System.setClipboard("string");
method to copy the "actual" text into the clipboard. Meaning, the text the
smiley actually represented.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karina Steffens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Flashcoders mailing list'" <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:45 AM
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] emoticons in a chat component
Copy/paste is a problem, but saving to history could be solved either by
making a special history viewer that would handle the fonts similarly
(instead of saving it to a simple file), or stripping them from the text
before saving.
I hope that my client will see that this solution is the best available and
won't be too concerned about the copy/paste problem.
But I wonder if there's a way to override the copy action to perform a
different action instead, that could strip the smilies from the code?
My main concern right now is embedding the fonts in the TextArea. The smiley
font has been embedded without a glitch, but the ordinary text font (_sans)
is suffering from two problems:
1. Unembedded, it looks nice and crispy, but embedded there's a fuzziness to
it, even with anti-aliasing switched off (in fact that looks even worse).
Verdana didn't produce any better results. Should I use a different font,
perhaps?
2. Bold text doesn't show up as bold. I have two font symbols in my library
for _sans: Sans-Normal and Sans-Bold. The history text is html formatted,
with the username surrounded with <b> tags, but it stops being bold once the
font is embedded. I had the same problem before with html formatting using
embedded fonts in a TextField, and had to use device fonts instead. It seems
to be a bug introduced in Flash 7, because I did not have that problem with
embedded fonts in 6. Any ideas?
Karina
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eric dolecki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 22 November 2005 03:49
> To: Flashcoders mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] emoticons in a chat component
>
> Ya i know your font solution works - but what happens if
> someone wants to copy & paste the text? Or have it saved to
> history? floating images on top fixes that problem, but also
> crushes the player.
>
> On 11/21/05, Simon Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Resizing the chat field with my font smilies has zero effect with
> > regards to crashing. It's just a font.
> >
> > Karina, the chat portion seems to work fine. Try again, I know in
> > Firefox you HAVE to click the Login button as it doesn't respond to
> > hitting the return or enter key (least not for me).
> >
> >
> > On Nov 21, 2005, at 11:17 AM, eric dolecki wrote:
> >
> > > Of all the things I tried, when resizing of the chat field was
> > > required, I could not come up with a solution that didn't
> crush the
> > > Flash player. The resizing is what did it in. I had to recompute,
> > > etc. Perhaps AS3 will allow for something like a system,
> with text
> > > that can be highlighted & copied and used, etc.
> > >
> > > If flash were able to have a component container that could parse
> > > HTML well within Flash, that might be another cool thing too.
> > >
> > > edolecki
> > >
> > >
> > > On 11/21/05, Karina Steffens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm also considering Joe's idea of overlaying the emoticons
> > >>
> > >> I'm getting dyslexic in my old age :-/ I meant Jobe -
> sorry for the
> > >> mis-type...
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