RE: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-05-02 Thread Danny Kodicek
> Thanks for the help! > > In your professional opinion is "almost the same" good enough > or will I need to tweak the char set? So you know I'm only > displaying short button labels and headings. I don't speak Arabic or know anything about it other than what's in the Unicode data :) I get th

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-05-02 Thread Jolyon Russ
Thanks for the help! In your professional opinion is "almost the same" good enough or will I need to tweak the char set? So you know I'm only displaying short button labels and headings. The languages I'm going to be needing to display are Arabic and Sorani. I think Sorani is as different to Ara

RE: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-05-02 Thread Danny Kodicek
> Has anyone had any experience of using the Flash RTL classes > from here: > http://www.flashrtl.com/ > > They seem to be good for Persian, but need porting to other > char sets, and a general clean up/re-write. > > To do this I need to get a better idea of what needs to be > converted, the

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-05-02 Thread Jolyon Russ
Has anyone had any experience of using the Flash RTL classes from here: http://www.flashrtl.com/ They seem to be good for Persian, but need porting to other char sets, and a general clean up/re-write. To do this I need to get a better idea of what needs to be converted, the order of words or the

RE: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread Danny Kodicek
> We tried the following: > (we're embedding fonts in all cases, also we don't have > require any input fields...we're just displaying Arabic) If you don't mind poor antialiasing, you could try not embedding the font - this fixes all the problems you mention, for dynamic text. > > -Copied Arabi

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread nik crosina
So Adobe Director is not alone in behaving oddly with fonts, char sets and languages ... ... that makes me really look forward to that project now ;) Thanks, Nik Crosina On 4/16/07, James Tu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We tried the following: (we're embedding fonts in all cases, also we don't h

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread James Tu
We tried the following: (we're embedding fonts in all cases, also we don't have require any input fields...we're just displaying Arabic) -Copied Arabic text into a static text field...flash actually reverses the characters. So we copied reversed text a static field. Then when we publishe

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread nik crosina
same here, Nik On 4/16/07, Danny Kodicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you very much, Danny, > > > Yes I thought that this post sank without a trace, lucky you saw it! > > Fro the moment I jsut needed to know if there were any > issues, as I am tendering for an English course DVD that will

RE: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread Danny Kodicek
> Thank you very much, Danny, > > > Yes I thought that this post sank without a trace, lucky you saw it! > > Fro the moment I jsut needed to know if there were any > issues, as I am tendering for an English course DVD that will > be sold in the Middle East. > > Do I remember seeing your nam

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread nik crosina
Thank you very much, Danny, Yes I thought that this post sank without a trace, lucky you saw it! Fro the moment I jsut needed to know if there were any issues, as I am tendering for an English course DVD that will be sold in the Middle East. Do I remember seeing your name on Director forums a

RE: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread Danny Kodicek
> HI, > > It now transpires that the project I am quoting for needs > much of it done in Arabic. As it is my first multi language > project in Flash are there any issues with that in Flash (I > could write an encyclopedia full about Director and its > characater set issues) Just got back fro

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-03-29 Thread Yehia Shouman
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 bi

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-03-29 Thread Omar Fouad
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

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-03-28 Thread Shaun Collins
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

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-03-28 Thread Alias™
Hi Omar, How well has this worked out? Does the text display properly? Are the issues to do with RTL text input a major problem? I'd be very interested to know. Sincerely, Alias On 27/03/07, Omar Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I work A lot using arabic in flash... I used to write arabic tex

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-03-27 Thread Omar Fouad
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]>