I’m trying to extend the Flex RTE to handle image insertion by using the File Upload path and short circuiting it to just get the path to the image… but not having any luck with that tack…

Any comments on the core issues with image insertion in the Flex RTE?

This is great, I have had no end of problems dealing with the htmltext from Flex components (mostly textAreas with custom style controls because I didn’t want to give users too much style control).

It doesn’t deal with some of the problems in the html. The most serious in my mind is the lack of tags around sets of and also the lack of standard HTML heading styles. Maybe if I get some time I guess I could add that.

I think that this area of Flex (and the underlying Flash player) is to be improved soon. Adobe has mentioned improved text layout in various releases. To me the most serious problem is that the textrange class also has some serious problems with returning and adding style properties to the selected text. I think it would be SUCH an improvement to Flex if it was possible to add good Rich Text editing functionality as is possible with the likes of TinyMCE in Javascript.

Two examples I have seen recently show how the limitations of the Flex handlling of rich Text are holding back Flex.

1. An AIR app that has to use the TinyMCE javascript editor for html editing
http://www.shawnsandy.com/index.php/shawnsandy/fullarticle/96

2. The otherwise very good Buzzword online word processing application that was recently acquired by Adobe that does not offer any defined text styles functionality beyond the application of fonts and colours.

This is not a rant, just a caution that the Flex handling of rich Text makes for limited posiblilities in this area.

Thanks

I edited the replacement string to chang to a tag and the add a break as well..

it worked for me to make the output look correct when I retrieve from a database and insert into a standard html page..
//format tag
pattern = /<P STYLE/gi;
str = str.replace(pattern, “<span style”);
pattern = //gi;
str = str.replace(pattern, “”);

hope this helps someone!

I guess i’m one of the many people who is trying to get the RTE to work within flex
But well i first say what i want:

i want the user to be able for farmat the input text and save that (with formatting)
So i tried the Flex RTE editor. when the users click a button the htmltext is saved in a database.
However the weird thing is the layout is very different when i load it back into the RTE editor. i tried the options you give in this post. and also your xhtml version. but i cannot get it to work.
So i must be doing something wrong. perhaps you have an idea?

Axel