Create powerful Rich Internet applications and Flash content management systems with our set of powerful text editing and image management Flash components. The suite includes the flashTexteditor and new flashTexteditor2 components.
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The flashTexteditor Suite includes the flashTexteditor2 and
flashTexteditor components. The following table shows the difference and
similarity between the key features of both of these components.| flashTexteditor2 | flashTexteditor | |
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| New! Text formatting using CSS for speed, simplicity and consistency |  |
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| New! Use of an external CSS file to specify styles available to the component which can be changed at runtime to modify styles on the fly | |
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| New! 'Clean' HTML export for use outside of Flash | |
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| New! Custom
controls can be created using any component framework |
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| Text field content can be toggled between HTML markup and normal text for complete control of your content | |
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| Customizable tooltips for language and usage | |
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| Fully documented API allows for extended features | |
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| Intuitive WYSIWYG style text editing | |
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| Unlimited 'undo' and 'redo' options | |
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| Can be dynamically attached to text fields at runtime | |
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| Images can be inserted into the textfield | |
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| Direct editing of links | |
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| Flash-based HTML export | |
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| Image files can be managed and uploaded directly on your webserver | |
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Text formatting
Select and edit the text by using the following formatting options:
- Font Style, Size, Color
- Bold, Italic, Underline
- Align left / right / center
- Indents / bullets / etc
User-friendly hyperlinks
Text can be hyperlinked through a simple, user-friendly Flash pop-up. The color of the hyperlinked text can be specified by you in the component properties.
Insert images and SWF's to your content
You can add and remove both images and SWF files to/from your content by using the simple and straightforward "insert image" pop-up. Image placement doesn't get much easier.
Upload images through a user-friendly interface
The FlashTexteditor includes both a user-friendly PHP based file upload interface as well as an integrated file upload interface. When publishing for Flash Player 8, you can use the integrated Flash file upload interface. This allows your user to upload images which can be then inserted through the FlashTextEditor. You can also specify the file types and the maximum file upload size.
Note: This feature requires a web server running Apache and PHP 4+ or Windows Server 2000 or higher with the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and IIS 5.0 or higher.
Full editing control
The FlashTexteditor includes familiar editing controls such as cut, copy, paste, find, replace, select all, remove formatting and paragraph formatting.
Undo/redo options
Set the undo level and allow users to undo and redo their changes.
Customized special characters insertion
There's no need for your user to enter ASCII or HTML code for special characters. Instead, they can use the built-in special character pop-up. The list of special characters available can also be customized by you.
Customizable toolbar
The toolbar of the FlashTexteditor can be customized to conform to whatever you had in mind for your CMS. You can do the following:
- Show/hide specific buttons
- Order of buttons
- Predefined list of available fonts
- Display specific font sizes only
- Hyperlink color
- Button size
- Button spacing
- Indent spacing
Toggle between HTML and design view
The FlashTexteditor includes an option to toggle the display between code view (HTML) and design view.
Backwards Compatible with Flash Player 6, 7 and 8
Movies made using the FlashTextEditor can be published for Flash Player 6, 7 and 8. Please note: The text-field will not support images when publishing for Flash Player 6.
Dynamically attachable to textfields
The flashTexteditor can be attached to the textfield that you wish to edit dynamically, at run time.
CSS WYSIWYG editing
Use CSS to define the text styles and formatting options through the flashTextEditor2. Simply enter the name of the CSS file in the Component Inspector of the flashTextEditor2 and CSS styles will be available in the flashTextEditor2 controls toolbar.
Text and font formatting
Besides using pre-defined CSS styles, fonts can also be edited using: bold, italic, underline, type, size, color. Buil-in text formatting options include: alignment, indentation, bulleted list, hyperlinking, letter spacing and kerning.
Image/SWF insertion
Images and SWF's can be easily inserted into textfields.
Custom special character insertion
There's no need for your user to enter ASCII or HTML code for special characters. Instead, they can use the built-in special character pop-up. The list of special characters available can also be customized by you.
Outputs valid XML
The HTML output that the flashTextEditor2 generates can be used to create valid XML files, without having to edit the characters.
Create your own controls or use the control buttons provided
The flashTextEditor2 is supplied with a control toolbar. You can choose to use this toolbar or build your own to suit your exact look and requirements.
Outputs clean HTML code
The flashTextEditor2 outputs clean HTML code, making it possible to use this component to edit text that will be displayed on an HTML website.
Supports 'strong', 'em' and 'u' tags
Mark-up your content with standard HTML tags.
CSS syles can be changed dynamically
The name of the CSS stylesheet can be changed dynamically through ActionScript. The styles available in the flashTextEditor2 component will be automatically updated to refelect the new stylesheet.
Customizable toolbar
Choose which buttons appear on the toolbar as well as the look of the toolbar.
Customizable tooltips
The tooltips that display on the toolbar are customizable, allowing you to translate them into any language.
Unlimited undo/redo
Set the undo level and allow users to undo and redo their changes.
Toggle between HTML and design view
flashTexteditor2 includes an option to toggle the display between code view (HTML) and design view.
Dynamically attachable to textfields
The flashTextEditor2 can be attached to the textfield that you wish to edit dynamically, at run time.
Lightweight engine
The main engine of the flashTextEditor2 weighs just 15kb.
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| flashTexteditor2 | flashTexteditor | |
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| Flash authoring requirements (Windows or Mac) |
Flash 8 | Flash MX 2004 / Flash 8 |
| Minimum publish settings | Flash Player 8 and Actionscript 2.0 |
Flash Player 6 and Actionscript 2.0 |
Use of file upload and management features requires a web server running Apache and PHP 4+ or Windows Server 2000 or higher with the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and IIS 5.0 or higher.
NOTE: The flashTexteditor Suite is not a content management system. It does not include the functionality of saving the content to the server. This is a developer component, which Flash developers can use with their own backend scripts in order to create their own Rich Internet Applications and content management systems. If you would like a ready made Flash CMS, please see our fCMS and fCMSPro.
