Comments on: Automatically getting underlined links in the RichTextEditor

By: polyGeek

polyGeek — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:20:01 +0000

@Armen, wow, thanks for all the code. That really helps.

By: Armen

Armen — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:22:45 +0000

@polyGeek Thx for the solution.

I find a simple way to fix the bug posted by @sydd

//store last changed link

private var _lastlink:String;

//add change event to see when link is changing (inside rteCustomizedInit())

body.linkTextInput.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE,onLinkChange);

private function onLinkChange(e:Event):void

{

_lastlink = body.linkTextInput.text;

}

//and change the last lines of onLinkFocusOut()

// checking if link is set and is not selected then underline, otherwise if not link //and underline exist remove underline

if(!body.underlineButton.selected)

{

if(_lastlink !== "http://" && _lastlink !==null)

body.underlineButton.dispatchEvent( new MouseEvent( MouseEvent.CLICK, false ) );

}else

{

if(_lastlink == "http://" || _lastlink =="")

body.underlineButton.dispatchEvent( new MouseEvent( MouseEvent.CLICK, false ) );

}

By: Don

Don — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:27:52 +0000

Thank you so much! This was driving users crazy...so I really appreciate you sharing it!

Don Kerr

By: polyGeek

polyGeek — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:13:48 +0000

@sydd, thanks for pointing that out. I'll put it on the 2Do list.

By: sydd

sydd — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:00:14 +0000

Nice work, it has a problem tho:

If you make some text a link underlines it.

BUT if you select that text again and change the link it removes the underline :(

By: polyGeek

polyGeek — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:19:41 +0000

@Jason, no kidding. I did a lot of RegEx work on the HTML code for the CommentSubmitter here on polyGeek. Don't need a lot of that crap in there.

Thanks for the links. I'll check'em out.

I sort of dropped the ball on the Sound thingy. Everyone hated it so I turned it off by default and didn't flesh it out. I think the typewriter-return plays anytime a field loses focus. You're right, a nice door sound for StarWars would fit right in with the old typewriting sounds. :)

By: Jason Langdon

Jason Langdon — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:38:48 +0000

The HTML the RTE creates is still pretty horendous. I don't know why Adobe hasn't cleaned up this part of the Flash Platform and try and make it adhere to the standards that Browsers now tend to be.

Here's a way to clean up your RTE generated code - http://thanksmister.com/?p=17

There's also a google code project for the component - http://code.google.com/p/flex-richtexteditor-html-utils/

On a tangent, I was playing around with the sounds on your comment component and noticed that focusing the mouse out of the textarea will make the end of line typewriter sound. I would've though it should make some form of power down sound, and that hitting the enter key would make the EOL sound? Not that I have the sound on anyways ;-)