Re: arabic script
Monte Goulding wrote: Hi I've had a request from a client to investigate doing an arabic version of his app. The rev docs say right to left scripts aren't supported. Has anyone worked around this? Cheers Well, how about starting with setting the fontLanguage to Arabic ? Hmm... I'm just guessing but I think I'd need a work around to handle the fact that right to left scripts aren't supported. At least that's what it says in the docs. As I don't know Arabic I thought asking here might help but perhaps no-one has bumped into this limitation yet? I'll have a fiddle around this afternoon (teaching this morning): no promises - but a bit of lateral thinking sometimes goes a long way. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: arabic script
Sorry, rushed off my feet; just had time to note this: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2004-July/039974.html and this: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2008-August/113501.html However, I think that there is STILL a right-to-left text problem. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: arabic script
Well, yes, there are problems, but it is possible. It isn't too difficult if text doesn't need to be editable. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Download Strõm Flow Chart Software http://flowproject.economy-x-talk.com Op 18 nov 2009, om 11:51 heeft Richmond Mathewson het volgende geschreven: Sorry, rushed off my feet; just had time to note this: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2004-July/039974.html and this: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2008-August/113501.html However, I think that there is STILL a right-to-left text problem. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: arabic script
Mark Schonewille wrote: Well, yes, there are problems, but it is possible. It isn't too difficult if text doesn't need to be editable. Yuck! There are a fair few languages that either are, or have been, written from right to left; Chinese is sometimes written from top to bottom. RunRev really need to make text direction as simple as: set textDirection to left The fact that there have been psotings on this topic for at least5 years shows that it is both a real and a commercial concern. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Download Strõm Flow Chart Software http://flowproject.economy-x-talk.com Op 18 nov 2009, om 11:51 heeft Richmond Mathewson het volgende geschreven: Sorry, rushed off my feet; just had time to note this: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2004-July/039974.html and this: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2008-August/113501.html However, I think that there is STILL a right-to-left text problem. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: arabic script
Monte Goulding wrote: Hi I've had a request from a client to investigate doing an arabic version of his app. The rev docs say right to left scripts aren't supported. Has anyone worked around this? Cheers Well, how about starting with setting the fontLanguage to Arabic ? Hmm... I'm just guessing but I think I'd need a work around to handle the fact that right to left scripts aren't supported. At least that's what it says in the docs. As I don't know Arabic I thought asking here might help but perhaps no-one has bumped into this limitation yet? Cheers Monte Guess again! ;-) I maintain further develop a training system I built for a client starting in 2003. It allows Arabic (or any RTL language) to be pasted into fields but not typed in. The reason for no typing is no engine support for RTL typing. During the paste process my code reverses the character order, gets the html entity code of each char, and sets the htmlText of the target field to the reversed string of entities. Also there is some unicode business thrown in along the way, but I don't remember those details at the moment. If there is a simpler way to do this, I would love to hear about it. Thanks - -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: arabic script
Hmm... I'm just guessing but I think I'd need a work around to handle the fact that right to left scripts aren't supported. At least that's what it says in the docs. As I don't know Arabic I thought asking here might help but perhaps no-one has bumped into this limitation yet? Cheers Monte I maintain further develop a training system I built for a client starting in 2003. It allows Arabic (or any RTL language) to be pasted into fields but not typed in. The reason for no typing is no engine support for RTL typing. OK, no typing could be a blocker for us. Did you try setting selecting before the first char to move the cursor to the left as the user was typing? During the paste process my code reverses the character order, gets the html entity code of each char, and sets the htmlText of the target field to the reversed string of entities. Also there is some unicode business thrown in along the way, but I don't remember those details at the moment. So how do you handle text wrapping or do you avoid it? If there is a simpler way to do this, I would love to hear about it. Me too. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: arabic script
Hi Monte, Monte Goulding wrote: Hmm... I'm just guessing but I think I'd need a work around to handle the fact that right to left scripts aren't supported. At least that's what it says in the docs. As I don't know Arabic I thought asking here might help but perhaps no-one has bumped into this limitation yet? Cheers Monte I maintain further develop a training system I built for a client starting in 2003. It allows Arabic (or any RTL language) to be pasted into fields but not typed in. The reason for no typing is no engine support for RTL typing. OK, no typing could be a blocker for us. Did you try setting selecting before the first char to move the cursor to the left as the user was typing? No I didn't - good idea. During the paste process my code reverses the character order, gets the html entity code of each char, and sets the htmlText of the target field to the reversed string of entities. Also there is some unicode business thrown in along the way, but I don't remember those details at the moment. So how do you handle text wrapping or do you avoid it? We avoided it by requiring that line breaks be inserted during editing in the RTL text editor before pasting the text into our app. I find this approach very clunky and unnatural-feeling, but it's the direction we went. I suppose you could check the formattedHeight of the field after each keystroke to detect wrapping. I expect to be improving my app's RTL text feature in the future, so any good approaches I can add to my existing hindsight observations will be greatly appreciated! If there is a simpler way to do this, I would love to hear about it. Me too. Bug #8146 describes this issue. -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
arabic script
Hi I've had a request from a client to investigate doing an arabic version of his app. The rev docs say right to left scripts aren't supported. Has anyone worked around this? Cheers Monte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: arabic script
Hi Monte, It is possible. Can you tell a little more about what you need to do? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Download Strõm Flow Chart Software http://flowproject.economy-x-talk.com Op 17 nov 2009, om 22:30 heeft Monte Goulding het volgende geschreven: Hi I've had a request from a client to investigate doing an arabic version of his app. The rev docs say right to left scripts aren't supported. Has anyone worked around this? Cheers Monte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: arabic script
Hi Mark It is possible. Can you tell a little more about what you need to do? Well, we haven't considered other languages just yet so we would need to parse over all the objects in a reasonable size application and update them with arabic labels or contents. While we are at it I'd like to implement it so next time we can just replace a file and it will update the application at startup or something. Cheers Monte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: arabic script
Hi Monte, As a very simple example, create two buttons and a field. Set the script of btn 2 to the following: on mouseUp set the textFont of btn 1 to Arabic,unicode set the textFont of fld 1 to Arabic,unicode set the label of btn 1 to the unicodetext of fld 1 end mouseUp Press button 2, paste Arabic text into fld 1, press button 2 again. A little bit of experimenting may be required. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Download Strõm Flow Chart Software http://flowproject.economy-x-talk.com Op 17 nov 2009, om 22:43 heeft Monte Goulding het volgende geschreven: Hi Mark It is possible. Can you tell a little more about what you need to do? Well, we haven't considered other languages just yet so we would need to parse over all the objects in a reasonable size application and update them with arabic labels or contents. While we are at it I'd like to implement it so next time we can just replace a file and it will update the application at startup or something. Cheers Monte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: arabic script
Monte Goulding wrote: Hi I've had a request from a client to investigate doing an arabic version of his app. The rev docs say right to left scripts aren't supported. Has anyone worked around this? Cheers Well, how about starting with setting the fontLanguage to Arabic ? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: arabic script
Hi I've had a request from a client to investigate doing an arabic version of his app. The rev docs say right to left scripts aren't supported. Has anyone worked around this? Cheers Well, how about starting with setting the fontLanguage to Arabic ? Hmm... I'm just guessing but I think I'd need a work around to handle the fact that right to left scripts aren't supported. At least that's what it says in the docs. As I don't know Arabic I thought asking here might help but perhaps no-one has bumped into this limitation yet? Cheers Monte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
