Comments on: Integration

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 23:34:33 +0000

Damn, you can event select all the text!

Very tight stuff, thanks for the link.

By: Chafic Kazoun

Chafic Kazoun — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 21:59:16 +0000

Sorry to spoil some of the fun.. but

http://projects.peterelst.com/imageParser/

I take no credit for this, it was not done by me

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:40:50 +0000

Yeah, true dat Eric. Gives little excuse for someone to not make such a component. I mean, no one likes the way you can’t size the width of a text field at authortime, so someone made a text field wrapper component; why not create one for image placement? Still sounds like some Hurculean text measuring code skillz, though.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:37:01 +0000

That makes sense. I have read a bunch of threads in the past few months, both on Flashcomm and Flashn00bz that talk about want this ability. The multitude of ways people are going about trying to accomplish this is great, although, maybe they shouldn’t have to try so hard based on what you saying should already be available.

From building your own font for smiley support, hacking the FListBox component, to building your own with all the image placement, Quark like algoritms intact. Yet to see the latter offerred anywhere, though.

From a design standpoint, I never really thought of the importance of this feature and now I can see just how important it is… even HTML 1.0 has this! Hrm, good call yo. Might be a good component for one of the next DRK’s, eh? Heard a buzz about Form creation components lately; utilizing the same logic, I don’t see why you couldn’t emulate text flowing, though, measuring text is still a little diffucult from my limitied experience. Have to give it a whirl sometime if there is continued interest, and I get a firmer date of release on MX2.

By: Erik Bianchi

Erik Bianchi — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:36:27 +0000

Seeing that Flash MX supports loading in dynamic jpgs I would think that the next logical step in mx2 would be to add in image tag suport for html text fields. Atleast this is what I am hoping for.