TLF htmlText links are in offset in CS6

Question

Hi,
I'm trying a simple thing, putting a link in a TLF with htmlText.
The problem, which seems like a bug, is that the link is in offset to the right.
This is the code I'm using:
import fl.text.TLFTextField;
import flashx.textLayout.elements.TextFlow;
import flashx.textLayout.formats.TextLayoutFormat;
var tf:TLFTextField = new TLFTextField();
tf.width=250;
tf.selectable = false
tf.htmlText = "TLF <a href='http://adobe.com' target='_new' >link here.</a> "
tf.embedFonts = true;
var myFormat:TextLayoutFormat = new TextLayoutFormat();
myFormat.color = 16711680
myFormat.fontFamily = "Arial, Helvetica, _sans";
myFormat.fontSize = 24;
myFormat.textAlign = 'center';
BTW, the smaller the font get's the bigger the offset.
Did anyone run into this?
tnx

Answer 1

Yes, TLFTextField is dropped, it's not even available in Flash CC. TLFTextFields are converted to TextFields causing all sorts of havoc initially. Here's an official notice:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flash/cs/using/WSb03e830bd6f770ee-4b0db644124bbdb363d-8000.htm l
Note: (Flash Professional CC only) The Text Layout Framework is deprecated and the functionality will be unavailable with Flash Professional CC. If a FLA file containing TLF Text, previously saved with an older version of Flash Professional, is opened with Flash Pro CC, then TLF is converted to Classic Text.
TextFields support Asian characters, you just need to set the embedded font to one that contains all the glyphs for the language. Take a look at Arial in the Chinese section of embed:
For Simplified Chinese it only supports 7/13746 glyphs, even though I can paste any SimChi into any static Arial TextField and it will show up just fine.
However, get a font known for more Simplified Chinese support and look at the glyph count increase (as well as the exported file size, ouch):
13,723 / 13,746. Chances are that TextField will contain everything you need to display. As a painfully large programmatic example, feel free to paste in some Simplified Chinese and press the button to see the Dynamic TextField update to show the text, embedded. (For ease, "Hello world" in Simplified Chinese 你好世界)
Note: The SWF is 9MB from including all those glyphs.
http://www.ertp.com/tmp/embfont.html
Included a quick text % loader for sanity.. On a 50mbit line (even though the host limits me) it's only about a 10 second load.