Dear IDX,

First of all i would like to thank for this generous utility for arabic support,

So far, i have used your utility for all flash player 8 and its work well, now i got stuck as i have one project done with support of flash player 6 when i tried this utility with flash 6 i got an error on line 138 infact you have define there to use static depth() but i am not much familiar with AS much, kindly help what i have to change to make this useful with flash6 thanks a lot in advance

am using textArea component for arabic text and getting error? is it possible to fix it?

import com.xvisage.utils.StringUtils;

var utils:StringUtils;
var format:TextFormat;

utils = new StringUtils();
utils.wrapFactor = .98;

format = new TextFormat();
format.color = 0×333333;
format.font = “Arial”;
format.size = 14;
format.align = “right”;

output.textField.mouseEnabled = false;
output.editable = false;
output.setStyle(“upSkin”,Sprite);

var xmlData:XML = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhitespace = true;

var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, showXML);

var xmlPath:String = “arb.xml”;
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest(xmlPath));

function showXML(e:Event):void {
xmlData = new XML(e.target.data);
output.htmlText = utils.parseArabic(xmlData.text(), output, format);
output.setStyle(“textFormat”, format);
}

@salman

Unfortunately my AS2 script requires Flash Player 8 or higher.

@Asim

Try this:

import com.xvisage.utils.StringUtils;
 
var utils:StringUtils;
var format:TextFormat;
 
utils = new StringUtils();
utils.wrapFactor = .98; // optional value for Mac use only
 
format = new TextFormat();
format.color = 0x333333;
format.font = "Arial";
format.size = 14;
format.align = "right";
 
output.textField.mouseEnabled = false;
output.editable = false;
output.setStyle("upSkin",Sprite);
 
// the following 2 lines for proper Font embedding to the TextArea
// note that the actual font "Arial" need to be embedded
output.setStyle("embedFonts",true);
output.textField.embedFonts = true;
 
// the following line for adjusting the inner textField width
output.textField.width = output.width;
 
var xmlData:XML = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhitespace = true; 
 
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, showXML);
var xmlPath:String = "arb.xml";
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest(xmlPath));
 
function showXML(e:Event):void {
	xmlData = new XML(e.target.data);
	// we need to pass the inner textField instead
	output.htmlText = utils.parseArabic(xmlData.text(), output.textField, format);
	// setting TextFormat for the TextArea using styles insead
	output.setStyle("textFormat", format);
}

How do I increase the number of words per line? is the wrapFactor?

@Hassan

The wrapFactor used to limit the amount of words per line for specific fonts combination, it’s an optional value with a default of 1.0 which is the max. value as well ..
In other words, you can use values less than 1.0 only, that factor will not increase the amount of words per line, it will reduce them instead ..
Looks like you’re having a new issue here, try to comment the lines responsible for line breaks:

AS2: from line 702 to line 711
AS3: from line 678 to line 687

And use the following code snippet instead:

AS2:

if (Math.ceil(temp._width)>=(tag._width*wrapFactor)-(format.leftMargin ? Number(format.leftMargin) : 0)-(format.rightMargin ? Number(format.rightMargin) : 0)) {
	measureLine = true;
}

AS3:

if (Math.ceil(temp.width)>=tag.width-(format.leftMargin ? Number(format.leftMargin) : 0)-(format.rightMargin ? Number(format.rightMargin) : 0)) {
	measureLine = true;
}

Hey there,

First of all, thanks for a brilliant piece of work! I have found it incredibly useful.

In my project I need to implement text input fields, I am aware that you have this functionality but cannot seem to find a working example on this site. The fla from the v3 link won’t open in my version of flash.

Could post a link to the files I need?

Many thanks

G

@Gaz

Here is an Arabic Input example, you need to test this on HTTP server (like wampserver), FLA saved for CS3 ..
You’re most welcome ..