Question

Hi I was trying some Textlayout stuff with flex 3.2.0 by downloading the flex 4 sdk and extracting the textlayout.swc and putting in my projects Lib folder.

But it seems that some of the classes are missing in that swc. I could not fin d the class CharacterFormat in the swc. Complaier throws an error saying "Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: CharacterFormat." Also there are lot of errors I'm facing related to something is not found or not a compile time constant.

Does anyone have any idea about the integration of Textlayout with Flex 3.2? Any working examples would be great.

PS - Basically I'm trying to get an idea of how subscript/superscript works using textlayout.

Thanks

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Mahesh Kokadwar

Answer 1

I'm not totally clear on what you're trying to do, but the only characterFormat I'm aware of is the property on InsertTextOperation.

Also, have you set up the namespaces to Flex 4 correctly?

Answer 2

Did you set up your project correctly for use with flash player 10?

Here's a step-by-step guide how to go about that: http://blog.everythingflex.com/2008/05/20/using-flash-player-10-within-flex-builder/

(The Text Layout Framework makes use of the new Flash Text Engine which is only available in Flash Player 10)

Answer 3

It seems that your forgot to copy some other swc

Flex 3.2 users — Download the Flex 3.2 milestone build. Download the Text Layout Framework, unzip the contents, and copy textLayout_core.swc, textLayout_edit.swc, and textLayout_conversion.swc from the /libs folder into the Flex SDK frameworks/libs folder.

I recommand to read Mihai CORLAN blog post on TLF too: http://corlan.org/2009/01/19/how-to-use-text-layout-framework-in-flex-32-or-air-15/