TLF editor for my CMS?

[emstris]

for my flash website, I have several flash text areas using this TLF and I know and love how the markup import/export thing works... the main problem I'm facing is that I don't know how to update my CMS buing built in PHP already?

in the last version which I used htmlText, I used a simple FCK editor in php and it generated the html tags and flash could read and display the text, but with the new markup xml, I'm confused!

so, I thought maybe I could have a flash editor integrated into my CMS so I can write and edit my text in there and when saving, it will export the xml markup and save it into database and the site text areas will use that markup to show the text...

I think this is the best thing to do, but how can I write a flash text editor?! that will certainly take a LOT OF time and I don't have that time! so I'm posting this question here in hope that someone has thought of something? I mean, there must be a standalone editor like the one we have now in flash CS4 > Window > Other panels > Text Layout so that I can put that in my CMS and use its xml markup export thing to save changes to the content...

maybe you have a better solution or something? please let me know. Thanks for any ideas.

[Guest]

The bad news is that there is no standalone TLF text editor. Adobe created one which you can find here http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/demos/ but they don't provide the source code.

What you can do is to write your own version, but Google can really help if you use the expression "TLF text editor".

[asciiman]

The source for the editor on the labs site is available inside the TourDeFlex air app.  Download it and you'll see the same editor inside there with source.

[emstris]

Tour de Flex is great a lot of useful information besides the TLF edotor source files. thanks for mentioning that.

[asciiman]

I ended up writing my own editor.  Check it out on google code: http://code.google.com/p/tlftexteditor/

It supports most basic text editor features and the source is free.

Steve