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From: Maurice Amsellem <maurice.amsellem@systar.com>
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Subject: RE: RTL support in mobile apps
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And this one on StyleableTextField:=20
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/mobileapps/WS19f279b149e7481c698e85712b301=
1fe73-7fff.html#WS19f279b149e7481c7c94ce7c12b30152f48-7ffc


-----Message d'origine-----
De=A0: Maurice Amsellem [mailto:maurice.amsellem@systar.com]=20
Envoy=E9=A0: vendredi 21 mars 2014 23:41
=C0=A0: dev@flex.apache.org
Objet=A0: RTL support in mobile apps

Hi Team,

Ori Segal has reported a problem in TextInput default skin with RTL (Hebrew=
, arabic) layout.
I have fixed this problem.

Now he has reported a problem in TextInput "prompt" text not being displaye=
d in RTL.

So I did a small test: set layoutDirection=3D"rtl" to a sample mobile app (=
with buttons, mobilegrid, etc..) and almost every text disappeared.

The only texts that seem to be displayed correctly are:
- TextInput / TextArea with the default text (that is using native StageTex=
t)
- spark Label, that is using TextLine (and the new FTE/TLF engine).
Everything else, that uses the mobile-optimized StyleableTextField, will no=
t display RTL (apparently because it's based on the old TextField engine).

Reading the articles below, it seems clear enough that RTL is NOT supported=
 on AIR mobile (with a few exceptions):

http://sourceforge.net/adobe/flexsdk/wiki/Mobile%20Text%20Components/=20
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS02f7d8d4857b1677-165a04e1126951a2d=
98-7ffe.html=20
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS02f7d8d4857b1677-165a04e1126951a2d=
98-7ffd.html

Alex, as you seem to have been involved in that, do you confirm?

Something else:
The first article says:
" Primarily for performance reasons and support for native predictive text =
input and editing, mobile will use TextField-based text in all critical are=
as. This is expected to be a short-term solution until a performant version=
 of FTE arrives on mobile."

So has FTE been optimized for mobile since the article was written , for ex=
ample in AIR 4.0?=20


Thanks=20

Maurice=20