TLFTextField reading direction?

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May 27, 2009
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Hi All,

One of advanced feature of Text Layout Framework is to support bidirectional text. But when i look at TLFTextField, i didn't see there is away to set reading direction? Do you know how to do that? Or we can only do it with textflow ?

Thank for your response,

-Hoang Long

Text layout framework

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GordonSmith

Participating Frequently

I think the current Mac players can display Arabic correctly but not input it.

Gordon Smith

Adobe Flex SDK Team

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GordonSmith

Participating Frequently

For Spark components such as <s:TextInput> and <s:TextArea> based on TLF, if you set the 'direction' style to "rtl" and the 'textAlign' style to "start", you should be able to enter right-aligned right-to-left Arabic text, with left-to-right text such a numbers or English phrases embedded within the Arabic. If this doesn't work, please let me know. The major problem I'm aware of is that the current Flash Player doesn't support Arabic input on Macintosh. This is being fixed for a future Player release.

Gordon Smith

Adobe Flex SDK Team

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Anonymous

Thanks Gordon. We'll test that over the coming weeks and let you know if we have any issues.

Steve

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texttileAuthor

Inspiring

Hi Gordon,

are you saying Arabic text input is not supported in Mac OS ? Does it mean displaying Arabic is also not supported for now?

Thank you for your answer.

-Hoang Long

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GordonSmith

Participating Frequently

I'm afraid that support for a bidirectional text in TLFTextField has been postponed past the Flex 4.0 release due to schedule constraints. If you need bidirectional text, you should use the new Spark components. The current plan is to support bidirectional text in TLFTextField, as well as UI mirroring, in a subsequent dot release.

Gordon Smith

Adobe Flex SDK Team