embedded fonts, tabs and

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June 3, 2008
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I have an XML file thats being pulled into Flash and having the HTML text displayed. I load in a css file and set all my text fields to the css style sheet.

to get anything with a "tab" to work, I would replace all tabs with a ~t in the XML file and then do a replace in flash with " " for every instance of ~t it found...

this worked, until I told the text field to embed the fonts..

now it won't work, I can't get anything more than one space, no tabs, nothing.

I even created a class in the css file that had a padding of 300px and told all ~t to have a but it didn't do anything (put it to 300 to see if the effect worked, and tried padding-left first..)

so is there ANY way to get more than one space after embedding fonts and using htmlText on a textfield?

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Anonymous

OK, come to find out the 	 works... EXCEPT if its the FIRST character in a line... like this:

Here is the text thats brought into the function to strip things out and convert it....

Incoming Text:
<ul><li>Engine Core</li></ul>~t] Operations/Component ~t~t[ High compressor - driven by a single-stage turbine ~t~t[ Combustion chamber, fuel nozzles, igniters ~t~t[ Provides most thrust at high altitudes ~t] ITT (thermocouples and gauges) ~t] N2 gauges <ul><li>Bypass Section</li></ul>~t] Operations/Components ~t~t[ Fan and low compressor - driven by a two-stage turbine ~t~t[ Air from fan (bypass air) flows around core of engine ~t~t~t- Provides more thrust at lower altitudes ~t~t~t- Also used to cool core ~t~t[ Air from low compressor is directed to high compressor (core) ~t] N1 gauges

after the converstion it tries to display this:

Outgoing Text:
·Engine Core 	]  Operations/Component 		[ High compressor - driven by a single-stage turbine 		[ Combustion chamber, fuel nozzles, igniters 		[ Provides most thrust at high altitudes 	] ITT (thermocouples and gauges) 	] N2 gauges ·Bypass Section 	] Operations/Components 		[ Fan and low compressor - driven by a two-stage turbine 		[ Air from fan (bypass air) flows around core of engine 			- Provides more thrust at lower altitudes 			- Also used to cool core 		[ Air from low compressor is directed to high compressor (core) 	] N1 gauges

even though the 	 is in there, its the FIRST line and it doesn't want to display properly.. any idea why? (basically EVERYTHING is pushed to the left).

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Ben_Danis

Inspiring

have you tried to use the #09; instead, i know that Flash is sensitive to the ampersand

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Anonymous

quote:

Originally posted by: Ben Danis
have you tried to use the #09; instead, i know that Flash is sensitive to the ampersand

ok, the text format thing works only if the line has one tab to the left of it, but I've found out that our developers do "columns" by pressing tab, typing text, pressing tab, etc...

so its not working that way now... and I've tried the #90; thing, but it ONLY displays the #90; and not a tab...

any other suggestions? basicaly I need to replace ANYWHERE there is a ~t (which is the code telling me there is a tab) with something that will represent a tab! :(

robdillon

Participating Frequently

You can use <textformat leftmargin="XX" indent="YY"> In the html text to get the equivalent of tab indentations. You can use both positive and negative numbers for the margin and indent values.

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Anonymous

quote:

Originally posted by: Rob Dillon
You can use <textformat leftmargin="XX" indent="YY"> In the html text to get the equivalent of tab indentations. You can use both positive and negative numbers for the margin and indent values.

Excellent thank you!! I can actually tell it how far to indent now too!!

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