OOPS text example Doubt

Hi ,
I am training on OOPS which one of the concept is really trouble-shooting to understand.
In the class ...CL_SEND_BCS_EXAMPLE....
There is one Method called ASYNCHRONUS.
When i am chekcing the code inside the mehtod it has written as
TRY.
RAISE EVENT IP_OPS_METHOD~RAISE_ERROR.
ENDTRY.
i KNOW raise event is just like rasing the error which can be caught by
But when i double click..there is notjhing code it is written inside that event
I just want to know why this event is used here???
Sas

Hi saslove,
sometimes it is not required to understand everything.
Method
ASYNCHRONOUS
returns
VALUE( RESULT ) TYPE OS_BOOLEAN
which is a flag that informs you if the send request of the BCS object instance is created for asynchronous (background) processing.
This
ASYNCHRONOUS
is called a functional method.
To determine the RESULT, a functional method of class
CL_SEND_REQUEST_BCS
is called: Method
GET_ASYNCHRONOUS
also returns boolean value RESULT, this is just taken from the attribute, so
result = ASYNCHRONOUS
This is the main function of the method.
The macro
state_read_access
raises event
READ_ACCESS
which is defined in interface
IF_OS_STATE
If in the class or an inherited class a handler for this event has been implemented and set for this event, this will automatically be triggered without any changes to the class.
This is what I tried to explain about the Notifier - Listener concept.
In this case to summarize: The function of Method
ASYNCHRONOUS
is just to return a flag about the processing function (SYNCHRONOUS/ASYNCHRONOUS). As a side-effect, event
READ_ACCESS
is triggered. This may be useful if any listeners are configured.
The Notifier - Listener concept is used when objects have to inform other objects about state changes: This is not hard-coded but implemented via so called loose-coupling. This allows you to exchange classes and objects freely.
[Page 44 ff - the observer pattern|http://books.google.com/books?id=LjJcCnNf92kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=designpatternshead+first&hl=de#v=onepage&q=&f=false]
is just an idea for further studies.
Regards,
Clemens

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        trace("super.maxWidth: " + super.maxWidth);
        if (textField.getLineMetrics(0).width<= super.maxWidth){
          trace("textField.textWidth: " + textField.textWidth);
          trace("textField.getLineMetrics(0).width: " + textField.getLineMetrics(0).width);
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--------------------- Test.mxml --------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
xmlns:comp="*">
<mx:HBox>
    <mx:Label text="Font size 8: "/>
    <comp:DynamicWidthTextArea width="100" fontSize="8"/>
</mx:HBox>
<mx:HBox>
    <mx:Label text="Font size 10: "/>
    <comp:DynamicWidthTextArea width="100" fontSize="10"/>
</mx:HBox>
<mx:HBox>
    <mx:Label text="Font size 12: "/>
    <comp:DynamicWidthTextArea width="100" fontSize="12"/>
</mx:HBox>
<mx:HBox>
    <mx:Label text="Font size 20: "/>
    <comp:DynamicWidthTextArea width="100" fontSize="20"/>
</mx:HBox>
<mx:HBox>
    <mx:Label text="Font size 40: "/>
    <comp:DynamicWidthTextArea width="100" height="100" fontSize="40"/>
</mx:HBox>
<mx:HBox>
    <mx:Label text="Font size 100: "/>
    <comp:DynamicWidthTextArea width="200" height="120" fontSize="100"/>
</mx:HBox>
</mx:Application>

Text Align ignores whitespaces

Hi.
I have a problem with text align in text field.
Let's say that I have a text field with htmlText:
"Text example "
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var _format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
_format.align= TextFormatAlign.CENTER;
text_field.setTextFormat(_format);
- it ignores whitespaces at the end of the line.
Same thing for TextFormatAlign.RIGHT.
Can I change this behavior using new text layout framework?

I don't think you can. TLF ignores trailing spaces when aligning text as well. And the decisions for where a glyph appears on a line are in the Player - not our actionscript code - so there isn't a way to override this in TLF.

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I am authoring a book that uses a lot of text examples—the idea is to have the examples as interactive text that self writes and highlights the important parts of each example when touched. Problem is that most self writing uses Flash so that is out and AE is horrible to use for more than one or two examples and I have thousands. Is there an easy solution or tool for iBooks Author to achive this easily?

Obviously I did not phrase the question correctly or you don't inderstand what self writing means.
The iBook is complete with all text in place. However, I want to present some example sentences as self writing sentences so that when a reader touches an example, it self writes in situ with important word or characters highlighted.
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazey dogs.
The sentence disappears for a second and self writes word by word in situ but with the (incorrect) e in lazey highlighted as
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazey dogs.
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