I once emailed Kevin Lynch and the guy generously replied with this:
Hi Yehia- Thanks for your note. Right-to-left text support in Flash Player is an important feature, and we know it would be a key addition to the platform. Implementing this feature to deliver the right quality is a fairly big undertaking -- and we also need to factor in cross-platform support, maintaining the stability of the player, and keeping the code size small. All requests for new features are investigated using these same standards as we prioritize features for each release. Product Management is aware of the need for right-to-left text support. Although we cannot provide an exact date for when it will be supported, it is definitely under evaluation. thanks Kevin
Flash supports unicode, it just isn't RTL supportive. Furthermore to this issue, if you try to use arabic, you won't be able to get a proper text wrap. There will be compatibility issues on different Windows versions and between Mac, worth saying backward compatibility with older Flash players that knows not of unicode. I seriously hope Adobe 's involvement will be beneficial. (Wish:Adobe Flash CS3 ME) Regards, Yehia Shouman Senior AS Developer and TL www.santeon.com On 3/29/07, Omar Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well the most thing i used is importing arabic written text from freehand (converted to vectors) and it is just fine... Regarding writing it in dynamic text boxes at runtime like this: myTextField.text "ولا حاجة" it works.... but you still have to take care about text wrapping as in flash doesnt recognize the end of a word, and so, in multi line cases, sometimes a single word splits.. i used to solve this problem by adding some extra spaces before the last word in a single line... and the same by parsing text from a metadata in xml... Hope this helps.... regards... On 3/29/07, Shaun Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've worked with Arabic in Flash and yes those are the > exact problems I experienced. There is an application > that will allow you to cut and paste arabic to other > applications without destroying the format. It won't > work if you're looking for a dynamic solution - if > anyone knows of one that would be great. > > http://www.layoutltd.com/alrassam.php > > There are arabic fonts you can use in flash but that > still doesn't solve the problem of getting the arabic > into flash in the right format if you are cutting and > pasting. > > Hope that helps some. > > --- Omar Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I work A lot using arabic in flash... I used to > > write arabic text > > dynamically into dynamic textfields, from xml, or > > action script in run > > time... Or by writing the arabic text in Free Hand, > > Than breaking it into > > vector and pasting it into flash as Vector... > > > > On 3/26/07, James Tu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > We have an approach to deal with a list of 100 > > phrases in Arabic. > > > When you copy and paste a phrase of Arabic into a > > Flash textbox, > > > Flash reverses it! So, we first reversed the > > characters outside of > > > Flash and then copied and pasted the phrases into > > Flash. Problem > > > solved right? > > > > > > We'll, when someone that can read Arabic read it, > > they told us that > > > the characters look funny. In essence, the > > characters weren't > > > connecting to each other correctly! It's as if > > you took a cursive > > > font and laid out the characters and the cursive > > writing was not > > > continuous. > > > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions on handling Flash > > and Arabic? I did > > > some extensive searching and there aren't any > > definitive > > > solutions...Some suggested using a special Flash > > Arabic font, which I > > > couldn't find. > > > > > > Help! > > > -James > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > > To change your subscription options or search the > > archive: > > > > > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > > > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > > > http://www.figleaf.com > > > http://training.figleaf.com > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Omar Fouad - Digital Emotions... > > > > Love is always patient and kind. It is never > > jealous. Love is never boastful > > nor conceited It is never rude or selfish. It does > > not take offense and is > > not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other > > people's sins...but delights > > in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to > > trust, to hope... and to > > endure... whatever comes. > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > To change your subscription options or search the > > archive: > > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > > http://www.figleaf.com > > http://training.figleaf.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com > http://training.figleaf.com > -- Omar Fouad - Digital Emotions... Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful nor conceited It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins...but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope... and to endure... whatever comes. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
-- Yehia Shouman
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