[flexcoders] Making StyleSheets and StyleManger work together.

[Lance Linder]

Something that I am finding a real pain in my Flex 2 projects is trying to apply StyleSheets to my text. I have found some information on fixing the problems with the TextArea component and I am in the process of applying these to the Text component as well.   I think my biggest gripe right now is that I want to combine all my styles into one css file so I don’t have component styles in one location and html text styles in another. Also I don’t really want to load my html text styles at runtime yet I really want to keep them in their own style sheet and not embedded in something like  a String tag in an MXML file.   So my idea was to put all my html text styles in the css style sheet that styles the components. Then at runtime loop through the CSSStyleDeclarations in the StyleManager and build a new flex.text.StyleSheet to apply to my components that use html text. Problem is that it looks like the StyleManager is storing all this info in a static private variable called ‘selectors’ so there doesn’t seem to be any way to loop this info without branching this class in order to make that variable public.   Since I really don’t want to start branching any of the mx components for any reason I am hoping that someone on this list has an idea that I haven’t thought of yet?   Adobe really needs to address this in a future version of Flex as right now having multiple text styles on one block of text is excruciatingly painful to make work yet it is such a basic feature of the Flash player for so long now.   Thanks! Lance     __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Software development tool Software development Software development services Home design software Software development company Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___