Problem retriving data from TLF

Question

I 'm having problem retrieving the data i need to from TLF, please have a look at the post i made over at stackoverflow that explains the problem i am having: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6198736/data-from-tlf-textline. Thanks!

Answer 1

rawTextLength : int
[read-only]        The length of the raw text in the text block that became the line,       including the U+FDEF characters representing graphic elements       and any trailing spaces, which are part of the line but not are displayed.
Your code seems good. I did not tried to get the atom of textline ago, so I can only share the experience I had.
1.textline.y give me the bottom of the textline not the top. So you need to differ textline.y from textLine.getAtomBounds(atomIndex).y;
2.When you use TLF, code like "_source.interactionManager.getCommonCharacterFormat"is not recommended.
You need to write the code as follows to skip the call of getter function when you will use _source.interactionManager many times. Because when you run "a.b", you call the "get b()" in class "a". "get b()" may be a large function and cost a lot.
var editManager:SelectionManager  = _source.interactionManager as SelectionManager;
editManager.getCommonCharacterFormat()