RE: [Flashcoders] TextArea Component (Flash 8)

2006-12-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
>>Have they increased the puny amount of HTML that is allowed in Flash? Nope, unfortunately. I've been down the exact same road - what I have learned is using the TextFormat object, while not perfect, will save you a lot of headaches. Searching through strings - what a pain, and a major performan

[Flashcoders] TextArea Component (Flash 8)

2006-12-15 Thread Millie Niss
I'm embarking on a project which will use text from a mySQL database and I will probably want to embed images and have links in the text. The obvious way to do this is to encode the text as HTML, but my previous experience (with Flash MX 2004 Pro) was that the TextArea component was very brok