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Comment on From Flash to Objective-C Part 1: Syntax by Craig W.

Craig W. — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:07:02 +0000

Very useful. Thanks for taking the time to write it!

Comment on tinytlf Explorer App by Adobe For Mac

Adobe For Mac — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:06:41 +0000

Adobe For Mac…

[...]//the blog of Paul Taylor/ site: actionscript[...]…

Comment on tinytlf Explorer App by Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 10/24/2011 | Remote Synthesis

Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 10/24/2011 | Remote Synthesis — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:30:34 +0000

[...] Taylor created a tinytlf Explorer App designed to showcase the features of his lightweight text layout [...]

Comment on tinytlf Explorer App by TinyTLF 2 App Explorer « The Algorithmist

TinyTLF 2 App Explorer « The Algorithmist — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:44:16 +0000

[...] Check out the blog post here and enjoy! [...]

Comment on Hello tinytlf 2.0 (beta) by banwenxiaoyu

banwenxiaoyu — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:53:59 +0000

TypeError: Error #1006: soup is not a function.
at org.tinytlf.util::TagSoup$/soup()[D:\EverBox\我的实验室\tinytlf\src\org\tinytlf\util\TagSoup.as:125]
at org.tinytlf.util::TagSoup$/slurp()[D:\EverBox\我的实验室\tinytlf\src\org\tinytlf\util\TagSoup.as:74]
at org.tinytlf.util::TagSoup$/toXML()[D:\EverBox\我的实验室\tinytlf\src\org\tinytlf\util\TagSoup.as:49]
at Main()[D:\EverBox\我的实验室\tinytlf\src\Main.as:60]

This is why?

Comment on Hello tinytlf 2.0 (beta) by HaunGO

HaunGO — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:17:44 +0000

Hi..
Are there any example demo files for Flash (not Flex) anywhere? I’m having a hard time getting anything to actually work. i downloaded from gethub, and tried working with that.. but I can’t seem to get an example going. there’s not a .fla file to reference.

Thanks,

Comment on Hello tinytlf 2.0 (beta) by TinyTLF 2.0 is in Beta « The Algorithmist

TinyTLF 2.0 is in Beta « The Algorithmist — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:23:15 +0000

[...] I’ve given several Freehand drawing demos on my iPad-2 here at MAX, but one of the things I’ve failed to mention is the impending release of TinyTLF V2.0. You can read about the new features and implementation details here. [...]

Comment on FTE Layout Tricks with BreakOpportunity.ALL by Joshua Sullivan

Joshua Sullivan — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:15:30 +0000

I wish I had known about this weeks ago! No I need to go back and redo some code. Thank you so much!

Comment on Hello tinytlf 2.0 (beta) by Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 9/19/2011 | Remote Synthesis

Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 9/19/2011 | Remote Synthesis — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:13:11 +0000

[...] Taylor released tinytlf 2.0 beta which is a lightweight text layout framework for ActionScript. He says that version 2.0 includes [...]

Comment on Hello tinytlf 2.0 (beta) by Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:53:09 +0000

The parser still parses any valid XML, though this time I’ve broken it up between content and layout parsing.

Each tag can affect the ContentElements that ultimately get created, or they can represent “components” in the text layout. You can still externally modify the way elements are parsed: 952e34ccf225bb4afb9fa66131ba3d2de8bc7d4b TextEngineInjector.as#L82.

Line 87 says to the parser “whenever you see a
node, create a GroupElement with two invisible GraphicElement children and a breakOpportunity of ‘all’.” This trick forces the TextBlock rendering algorithm to break the line right after the first invisible Graphic, and start the next line with the second invisible Graphic (http://guyinthechair.com/2011/06/fte-layout-tricks-with-breakopportunity-all/).

This works for
tags inside paragraphs, but HTML also allows
tags outside paragraphs. Tinytlf’s renderer no longer treats everything as “inside a paragraph”, so it’s important to define a layout item for
tags too: 952e34ccf225bb4afb9fa66131ba3d2de8bc7d4b TextEngineInjector.as#L140. All this says is that whenever the renderer encounters a
tag outside a paragraph, insert a rectangle that’s as tall as one line of text.

I expect to handle most cases with one or both of these techniques.