Text Input - FTE TextField, TLFTextField, Custom Class

Dear,

I have written my own TextLabel class which uses FTE to render text, but I need an editable version of that.

My concern is that I want to optimize the performance as much as I can and I think I should not use the whole TLF in order to have a single, 0-20 character length simple editable textfield. I tried to look at the FTETextField or TLFTextField as a temporary solution, but I just cannot make it work in Flash Builder. Don't we have an FTE based simple editable textfield class?

I also don't really understand why we have the CS5 line and the Flex SDK line in terms of handling FTE. Why can't we get a simple textfield class in the framework?

We really needed the support of RTL once for an arabic form and we embedded a CS5 compiled MovieClip containing a TLFText and used as a TextField. That was a hack, but the RTL editable simple textfield worked well in Flash Builder Project. We did not have to write our TextField class.

Benjamin