Comments on: The Flash Text Engine, Part 2: Interaction http://guyinthechair.com/2010/06/the-flash-text-engine-part-2-interaction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-flash-text-engine-part-2-interaction //the blog of Paul Taylor Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:07:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Enrique http://guyinthechair.com/2010/06/the-flash-text-engine-part-2-interaction/comment-page-1/#comment-1048 Enrique Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:05:06 +0000 http://guyinthechair.com/?p=312#comment-1048 please tell me what are the advantages of using FTE over a simple TextField with htmlText. We must write a LOT of code, there's no selection, IBeam cursor, copy in context menu, our SWF is 200KB for just one line of text! Also you example with selection consumes 20% of my CPU when I'm selecting! This seems a really nightmare :S please tell me what are the advantages of using FTE over a simple TextField with htmlText.
We must write a LOT of code, there’s no selection, IBeam cursor, copy in context menu, our SWF is 200KB for just one line of text! Also you example with selection consumes 20% of my CPU when I’m selecting!
This seems a really nightmare :S

]]> By: JabbyPanda http://guyinthechair.com/2010/06/the-flash-text-engine-part-2-interaction/comment-page-1/#comment-619 JabbyPanda Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:24:36 +0000 http://guyinthechair.com/?p=312#comment-619 Thank you for the series of insightful post on the internals of FTE. So, we can add selection operation to FTE w/o relying on Text Layout Framework in a simple way, that's great! By doing so, we can save on memory and performance, while supporting all the requested functionality. Bye-bye TLF in our project, but please welcome FTE. Thank you for the series of insightful post on the internals of FTE.

So, we can add selection operation to FTE w/o relying on Text Layout Framework in a simple way, that’s great!

By doing so, we can save on memory and performance, while supporting all the requested functionality.

Bye-bye TLF in our project, but please welcome FTE.

]]> By: Rezmason http://guyinthechair.com/2010/06/the-flash-text-engine-part-2-interaction/comment-page-1/#comment-595 Rezmason Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:55:52 +0000 http://guyinthechair.com/?p=312#comment-595 I've put together my own FTE-based interactive textbox, based on a lot of the ideas you've presented here. I'm really happy with the result; I'll have it online sooner or later. One big remaining issue is memory usage. Every time my class has to redraw its text contents, I end up scrapping the existing TextLine and making a new one. This stuff really piles up. Have you got any ideas for somehow conserving memory with the FTE classes? One I idea I have involves making a TextLine for each character in a monospace font, pooling TextLines on a per-character basis, and assembling the text in the display list. Humongous hassle, but for numeric text input it may be worthwhile. I’ve put together my own FTE-based interactive textbox, based on a lot of the ideas you’ve presented here. I’m really happy with the result; I’ll have it online sooner or later.

One big remaining issue is memory usage. Every time my class has to redraw its text contents, I end up scrapping the existing TextLine and making a new one. This stuff really piles up. Have you got any ideas for somehow conserving memory with the FTE classes?

One I idea I have involves making a TextLine for each character in a monospace font, pooling TextLines on a per-character basis, and assembling the text in the display list. Humongous hassle, but for numeric text input it may be worthwhile.

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