Flex based Wysiwyg Editor

Question

Hi there
Im new to flex, but im coding with PHP/MySQL since 2001 and
will try to create a wysywig editor based on flex to manage website
content in a backend.
The RichTextEditor given by Flex looks really pretty, but
there are some functions missing i have to add. What i need is a
file and image upload and browser to add also images and link files
in the Editor. It would be also a good feature to add tables.
The plan is, to make this work with PHP/MySQL for the data
handling.
My first tests had shown me that its easy possible to add
html-code like images in the RichRextEditor, but once inserted i
dont have the possibility to access this image to set properties
like size, border or also just delete it from the textarea.
Does anybody know if would be better to create such an editor
without the RichTextEditor given by flex? Maybe just with a
TextArea? Or does maybe one of you got such an editor or is working
on it?
Any ideas based on this idea from the community?
Thank you for a short response.
Mike

Answer 1

So far I got something that is acceptable but still working on it.
private function colorCodeText() : void {
     var tempHTML:String;
     tempHTML = rawXMLEditor.htmlText;
     var tagRegExp:RegExp;
     //tag all the single xml as blue
     tagRegExp = /(<\w*>)|(<\/\w*>)|(<\w*)|(\/>)|(>)/g;
     tempHTML = tempHTML.replace(tagRegExp,"<FONT COLOR=\"#0000FF\">$&</FONT>");
     //tag attribute values
     tagRegExp = /(\w*)(\s)*=(\s)*(&quot;)((\w| |#|,|&apos;)*)(&quot;)/g;
     tempHTML = tempHTML.replace(tagRegExp,"<FONT COLOR=\"#990000\">$&</FONT>");
     rawXMLEditor.htmlText = tempHTML;
<RichTextEditor id="rawXMLEditor" width="100%" height="100%" creationComplete="colorCodeText()"  />