I've been looking for a while for a word processor component that would
extend the functionality of the basic rich text editor from Flash but I
couldn't find any. We are in the planning stages for a new project and
one of the key things that we would need is a text editor able to handle
at least pictures and tables if not more.
The first question would be, is there such a component already written
by somebody else? I don't think the Flex Framework has anything like
this but even a third party thing that we could license would do.
I'm somewhat familiar with ActionScript with a strong background in C++
so I could undertake writing such a component. However the run time
speed tests that I've made to try to manually compute the layout and
then cache everything in a bitmap didn't prove too encouraging. Once
everything is cached in a bitmap you can scroll it just fine but the
speed at which the layout gets rendered to that bitmap - when the user
presses a key and causes a word wrap, let's say - is not at all
"interactive".
Any thoughts on this? Is FP9 fast enough but just my approach is wrong?
Is it possible to develop such a component?
I'd gladly appreciate any suggestions in this matter since our choice of
Flash kind of hangs on this issue right now...
Thank you in advance!
Catalin
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