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ds-uiowa
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March 3, 2010
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FTE already in Player 10, but not TLF?

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Are .swf files that use TFL distributable? I'm a little unclear on some of the Adobe Labs specifics.

What I can glean (after a few hours of looking at this feature) is:

- Flash Text Engine is built into Flash Player 10 already, so anything that uses the low-level API will work for any user

- Text Layout Framework is still in beta and not part of Flash Player 10, but

- since TLF just makes calls to FTE (right?) and is just ActionScript (and a component), .swf files that use TLF should work fine for other users, correct?

- but may be technically not distributable because it's not officially released yet?

- but may be distributable anyway because it's been open sourced?

what is the understanding of others in this group? Are you putting things out in the wild that use the higher level API?

thanks,

--Derek

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Thanks Alan,

What i've downloaded so far is the Flex 4.0.0.10485 (very current) and the TextLayout Flash components and examples (from 11/18/08, not so current).

From the Flex i've pulled the TextLayout.swc and put it in my Flash CS4 path.

The TextLayout component is from the Labs release, though (Text Layout Flash Component.mpx). Do i need this? Is there a more recent version?

Thanks again,

--Derek


The TextLayout component is too old and is not compatible with current builds of TLF. There will not be an update of that component, but similar (and much better) functionality will be built in to the next release of Flash Pro. You should delete the Labs component.

You can use TextLayout.swc with Flash CS4 as long as you target Flash Player 10. ActionScript access to TLF through the swc is the only way to use TLF in Flash Pro until the next release.

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ds-uiowaAuthor
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March 3, 2010

and by "distributable" i'm not referring to the 'distributable Player' but just to whether

a swf will work for other user (who have the current Flash 10 Player) and whether

it's okay to use the TLF right now, rather than when it becomes "official"

--Derek

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Anonymous
March 3, 2010

The Labs release is over a year old. I would not recommend using our labs release at this point.

You can and should use the up-to-date open source release that's made available with the current Flex SDK 4 builds. This is distributable in every sense of the word. It's perfectly OK to use it right now.

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ds-uiowaAuthor
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March 3, 2010

Thanks Alan,

What i've downloaded so far is the Flex 4.0.0.10485 (very current) and the TextLayout Flash components and examples (from 11/18/08, not so current).

From the Flex i've pulled the TextLayout.swc and put it in my Flash CS4 path.

The TextLayout component is from the Labs release, though (Text Layout Flash Component.mpx). Do i need this? Is there a more recent version?

Thanks again,

--Derek

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