flash actionscript:

umm, these fields have html = true but when i type in the html code it comes up
as text rather then formatting the text. I want to basically create a little
WYSIWYG editor with buttons for bold and italics and color and stuff that will
show it as formatted text and then send it out as code.

why would you want to type your own html code? you could use TextFormat to
format the text, or type your code and have a "preview" button, which should
move the text you typed in another textbox as htmlText . but that will hurt.

ps: there are also free text editor components, i believe actionscript.org has
a pretty good one

I was wondering if there is a way to take text that is formatted in flash and
send it out somewhere else as html code rather then plain text. Basically, if I
have some text in Flash that I have made bold can I send it out to a database
with <b></b> tags? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
-Dan

In MX 2004 I tried this:
a_txt.text = "ABC"
my_fmt = new TextFormat()
my_fmt.color = 0xff0000
my_fmt.italic = true
a_txt.setTextFormat(my_fmt)
a_txt.html = true
trace(a_txt.htmlText)

Output window =
<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="_typewriter" SIZE="12"
COLOR="#FF0000"><B><I>ABC</I></B></FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>

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I was wondering if there is a way to take text that is formatted in flash
and
send it out somewhere else as html code rather then plain text. Basically,
if I
have some text in Flash that I have made bold can I send it out to a
database
with <b></b> tags? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
-Dan