Link creation while typing

Question

Hi,
I am using TLF TextFlow as rich text editor. The editor is capable of detecting the hyperlink & convert it into actionable link. Iam trying with adding event: CompositionCompleteEvent.COMPOSITION_COMPLETE exporting text then using regular expression reform the html text and finally importing again. But I think that seems to be very costly in terms of performance.
Can anybody help me out if I am going wrong?
One more doubt: Is there any way to assign new text in TextLayoutFormat?
Thanks in advance.
Gaurav

Answer 1

I am not quite sure what you are asking, so I hope this answers your question. The standard way to add a hyperlink in a TextFlow is to use the EditManager in the TextFlow's interactionManager. It has a method, applyLink, that takes the current selection and makes it into a hyperlink.This is *much* more efficient than exporting, editing the html or xml, and reimporting.
Likewise, if you want to insert new text, and assign formatting properties to the new text, then you can use the interactionManager. It has a method, insertText, that inserts the text. To apply the formatting properties, you can either do that as a second call to the EditManager's applyFormat, or you can suppy a SelectionState when you call insertText that contains the properties you would like applied in the SelectionState's pointFormat property.
Hope this helps,
- robin