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Key: SDK-12291
Type: Feature Request Feature Request
Status: Deferred Deferred
Priority: C C
Assignee: Matt Chotin
Reporter: Apinan S.
Votes: 35
Watchers: 21
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Flex SDK

Need an IFrame component to display PDF,FDF,HTML content like what HTML IFrame can do and also the way to communicate with the content inside

Created: 08/22/07 06:33 AM   Updated: 08/15/08 06:00 PM
Component/s: MXML Components
Security Level: Public (All JIRA Users )


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Our company plans to develope new version
of our web application by replacing all ASP.NET/Ajax UI with Flex.
But Flex lacks some features which are very important to us. What we
need are as follow :

1. We need to have some area to display PDF file for user to view and
fill data(in case of PDF form). But there is no way to embed them. We
don't need to display them in the separated window.
2. We need to have WYSIWYG editor for user to edit HTML email content.
But flex doesn't support full set of HTML tags such as HR,Table,etc. The
image can be displayed but cannot be resized or moved freely like other
web-based WYSIWYG editor can do.

We may solve these things using HTML IFrame approach as some guys
introduce but we can predict many troubles we will face because the
IFrame is floating over the other flex components and it is very trouble
to manage its size and visibility when we need to place it in some
containers like Tab, Accordian, other cases.

So, we would like to request the FLEX NATIVE IFRAME COMPONENT.

Thanks

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Robert Vollmar (Adobe) - [08/28/07 12:05 PM ]
Selecting just one component due to upcoming JIRA changes.

Kristen Sindac - [09/20/07 03:26 PM ]
enhancement request for a native flex component IFRAME, which functions similar to a custom component floating around for embedding HTML

Lauren Park - [09/22/07 12:35 AM ]
Deferred for this release.

Albert Doolittle - [10/30/07 12:01 PM ]
For what it is worth, we have the same issue and need. What alternatives or work-arounds have people found?

Joan Lafferty - [01/31/08 11:30 PM ]
Reopening these bugs that were deferred Minor Enhancements

Samuel Neff - [02/13/08 02:41 PM ]
We use the IFRAME trick in our application and having a native implementation that can fix flickering and focus issues would be wonderful.

Abdul Qabiz - [02/29/08 03:34 PM ]
Not sure, this kind of hooks in Flash Player is good. However, Flex framework is now opensource, so additional component can surely be added.

There has been variety of psuedo html-components, which provide js and as code (class) to make things simpler and resuable.

I also tried similar thing at: http://abdulqabiz.com/files/ylive_mashup/multi_window.html, I figure out this could be a good workflow:-

1) A HTML Flex component which requires some javascript in wrapper, the way HistoryManager requires.
2) #1 would need support in FlexBuilder to set properties (id, div-id, default content or url).
3) #2 would require extention in FB for design-view and html-wrapper code generation.


I would want to create HTML layers on fly and load various content in it. I tried similar thing above, is it worth writing a Flex component and contribute here?

-abdul

Varun - [03/07/08 11:22 AM ]
I am facing similar issue. I am experimenting with the "IFrame" code available at http://www.deitte.com/archives/2006/08/finally_updated.htm
Once we embed the HTML inside the flash application it becomes impossible to open another flash panel or titlewindow over the HTML contents.
It actually slides underneath the HTML contents but above the flash contents.
Is there a way to mimic the required feature

Bob Ignacio - [03/07/08 01:55 PM ]
The popular solution floating around is the setting of wmode="opaque" in the index.template.html. This allows the iFrame to work, however, "Ctrl-Click" events are affected causing components such as the DataGrid to experience problems in FireFox. In this case, the DataGrid loses its ability to do a multiple selection of rows.

Varun - [03/07/08 05:53 PM ]
Bob I dont know if you went through the source code but "Chris" has already changed that setting in the IFrameDemo.html HTML wrapper, moreover as I have unchecked the "Generate HTML wrapper" from the compiler settings (not doing the same will create a new HTML wrapper overwriting the previous changes made to the wrapper) it has no index.template.html file.

Bob Ignacio - [03/10/08 12:13 PM ]
Apologies if I mislead you Varun...I was commenting on the actual bug report and what our project has found using the IFrame and not actually responding to your post :)

James Ward - [07/20/08 07:09 PM ]
This seems to be a dupe of:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-13740

David Welch - [08/15/08 06:00 PM ]
James: yes, I agree, this is basically a dupe of 13740, interesting if you add up the votes for both, it would be almost at the top of the "popular" list. Given this, can someone explain why this is only categorized as "C" and "deferred"? Matt?