I'm trying to implement a bidi RTL TextField (flash.text.TextField) with no luck.

I tried 2 approaches:

• Using the flash CS4 TextLayout component which works (+/-) until I try to access the text with AS3, which there is no way to do.
• Wrapping TextFlow with a TextField implementation, which I am having trouble with.

Is there a way to access the text inside a TextLayout component with AS3?

If not, can you help me fill the empty functions for my TextField implementation?

My implementation:

package 
{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flashx.textLayout.edit.EditManager;
    import flashx.textLayout.formats.Direction;
   
    import flashx.textLayout.container.DisplayObjectContainerController;
    import flashx.textLayout.container.IContainerController;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.Configuration;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.ParagraphElement;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.SpanElement;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.TextFlow;
    import flashx.textLayout.formats.CharacterFormat;
    import flashx.textLayout.formats.ParagraphFormat;
    import flashx.textLayout.formats.JustificationRule;
    import flashx.textLayout.formats.TextAlign;
    import flash.text.engine.FontPosture;
    import flash.text.engine.Kerning;

    public dynamic class MyTextField extends MovieClip
    {
       
        private var mainSpan:SpanElement;
        private var textFlow:TextFlow;
        private var paraFormat:ParagraphFormat;
        private var charFormat:CharacterFormat;
        private var config:Configuration;
       
        public function MyTextField(twidth:Number=-1,theight:Number=1)
        {
            if (twidth == -1) twidth = this.width;
            if (theight == -1) theight = this.height;
           
           
           
            config = new Configuration();
            charFormat = new CharacterFormat();
            charFormat.color = 0x000000;
            paraFormat = new ParagraphFormat();
            charFormat.fontFamily = "Arial";
            charFormat.fontSize = 12;
            charFormat.kerning = Kerning.ON;
            paraFormat.direction = Direction.RTL;
           
            config.textFlowInitialCharacterFormat = charFormat;
            config.textFlowInitialParagraphFormat = paraFormat;
           
            textFlow = new TextFlow(config);
            textFlow.interactionManager = new EditManager();
           
            var p:ParagraphElement = new ParagraphElement();
            mainSpan = new SpanElement();
            mainSpan.text = "one two three";
           
            p.addChild(mainSpan);
           
            textFlow.addChild(p);
            textFlow.flowComposer.addController(new DisplayObjectContainerController(this, twidth, theight));
            textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllContainers();
           
        }
       
        public function set text(t:String) {
            mainSpan.text = t;
            textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllContainers();
        }
       
        public function get text():String {
            return mainSpan.text;
        }
       
        public function set color(obj:Object) {
           
        }
       
        public function set direction(dir:String) {
           
        }
       
        public function set fontFamily(s:String) {
           
        }
       
        public function set fontSize(n:int) {
           
        }
       
        public function set maxChars(n:int) {
           
        }
       
        public function set multiline(b:Boolean) {
           
        }
       
        public function set selectable(selectable:Boolean) {
           
        }
       
        public function set type(str:String) {
            //DYNAMIC or INPUT.
        }
       
    }

}

Please help I am really eating grind stones with this.

I found that as well, in my wrapper class:

       public function set text(t:String) {
            mainSpan.text = t;
            textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllContainers();
        }
       
        public function get text():String {
            return mainSpan.text;
        }

What i need is the other wrapper function so i will have basic "TextField" functionality.

The function i need:

        public function set color(obj:Object) {   
        }
       
        public function set direction(dir:String) {
        }
       
        public function set fontFamily(s:String) {
        }
       
        public function set fontSize(n:int) {
        }
       
        public function set maxChars(n:int) {
        }
       
        public function set multiline(b:Boolean) {
        }
       
        public function set selectable(selectable:Boolean) {
        }
       
        public function set type(str:String) {
            //DYNAMIC or INPUT.
        }

Or if you can tell me how to access the text inside a CS4 TextLayout component which i initiated with the CS4 IDE (drag and droped from the component panel and initialized with the new TextLayout component menu).

thanx

Dotan