Comments on: Tinytlf Overview

By: 360 Flex – Washington DC | Davey's Flash Blog

360 Flex – Washington DC | Davey's Flash Blog — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:01:44 +0000

[...] Advanced FTE and tiny-TLF (Paul Taylor): This just blew me away. Okay, well text doesn’t really impress people visually. However, as a developer and incorporating dynamic text for my courseware, this presentation was a godsend. One of the main criticisms of Flash involves the lack of support of the flexibility of text rendering. This was resolved with the advent of the Flash 10 player with the “Flash Text Engine” framework, a low level text API. With the release of CS5 Adobe incorporated the Text Layout Framework (TLF) for designers and developers to ease development with the FTE. Of course, after a while, one is bound to encounter some limitations. Paul Taylor created tinyTLF is an alternative TLF to write advanced text layout controls. Please check out his blog. [...]

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Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:40:34 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Gilles Guillemin, Simon Bailey. Simon Bailey said: Had shamefully missed Paul Taylor's tinyTLF http://bit.ly/aXS88o http://bit.ly/dDp0Nc and http://bit.ly/bsrTV4 – (via @gillesguillemin) [...]

By: Marcus Stade

Marcus Stade — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:24:43 +0000

Sorry, nevermind. It’s all explained here:
http://guyinthechair.com/2010/08/introducing-tinytlf/

By: Marcus Stade

Marcus Stade — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:22:35 +0000

Interesting project! It is clear that this is meant to be a replacement for the woefully inadequate TextField, but it is not really clear wether this extends, builds on top of or replaces TLF. Are you leveraging FTE or LTF for the rendering?

By: Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:30:58 +0000

I did write in calculations of which side of the atom you're selecting (so click on the right/left of the atom and the caret should change positions). But this is my point! If something, no matter how small, doesn't work exactly like you expect it, you can replace it. In this case it's probably the CharacterSelectionBehavior. Tinytlf lets you fix it like you want, and externally apply it to the TextField yourself.

By: Rezmason

Rezmason — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:42:05 +0000

Hey Paul. Can I nitpick about something? There’s a chance that I’m wrong about it anyway.

I don’t know about Windows, but on Mac OS X, when you select characters with the mouse, the rule that determines whether an atom is selected operates on the center of the atom, not the left edge. Like, if you begin selecting text from left to right, the rightmost atom in the selection will become selected only once the cursor falls to the right of its center.

In the TinyTLF example you have online, the selection is based on the left edge of the atom instead. I don’t know if that’s something the user can specify, or if that’s simply the way text works on other OSes… and I realize that this “axis of selection” doesn’t significantly change the overall behavior of text, but I have a feeling that Mac users will mutter some WTFs over it.