Wait, I was wrong about that.  I found the TCM/TLF code in FTETextField.
So yes, it should work on the device.

-Alex

On 1/20/14 11:40 AM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:

>FTETextField should support RTL, but doesn't support text entry, IIRC, so
>I'm not clear how it could be involved in a TextArea skin.
>
>-Alex
>
>On 1/20/14 11:07 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com>
>wrote:
>
>>It does, but only on the device.
>>As you said, it does not work on ADL.
>>
>>The example listed in the JIRA ticket uses the FTE-based mobile skin.
>>
>>So if it' sure that FTE-textfield based skins won't work with RTL text,
>>and the workaround is simply to use the native stage text, then I could
>>close the ticket.
>>Or do you think it's worth investigating on the reason why FTE-text-file
>>do not support RTL on mobile ?
>>
>>Maurice
>>
>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>De : Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com]
>>Envoyé : lundi 20 janvier 2014 18:52
>>À : dev@flex.apache.org
>>Objet : Re: Anyone willing to help out with these regression / important
>>issues?
>>
>>Ah ok.  If ScrollableStageTextInputSkin works in RTL environments, that
>>would be great!
>>
>>On 1/20/14 9:47 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Alex, I already did that, in the ScrollableStageTextInputSkin, but
>>>using a bitmap cache of the StageText instead of FTE equivalent, so
>>>that it looks exactly the same.
>>>This is how it works now in the mobile implementation.
>>>But the onlye "FTE-only" skin is still there, for compatibility.
>>>
>>>Maurice
>>>
>>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>>De : Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Envoyé : lundi 20 janvier
>>>2014 18:27 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : Re: Anyone willing to help
>>>out with these regression / important issues?
>>>
>>>I could be wrong, but I don't think there is any reason you couldn't
>>>borrow code from StageTextInpuSkin and the default desktop
>>>spark.skins.TextInputSkin and fashion a skin that uses FTE when not
>>>focused and a StageText when focused.  IMO, it only that Flex doesn't
>>>currently offer such a skin that folks have to choose.  There could be
>>>some rendering differences that are noticeable.
>>>
>>>-Alex
>>>
>>>On 1/20/14 8:24 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I have no idea how well FTE skins work with StageText.
>>>>
>>>>I am confused here.
>>>>I thought that mobile could use either FTE (ie. Flex/AIR text field)
>>>>or StageText (i.e native OS text field) but not both.
>>>>What is FTE skins with StageText ?
>>>>
>>>>Maurice
>>>>
>>>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>>>De : Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Envoyé : lundi 20 janvier
>>>>2014 17:17 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : Re: Anyone willing to help
>>>>out with these regression / important issues?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On 1/20/14 5:12 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>That's what I was trying to determine.
>>>>>
>>>>>My initial findings:
>>>>>
>>>>>-  it works using StyleableStageText-based skins on the device,
>>>>>without even having to set layoutDirection,
>>>>>- it does not work with StyleableStageText skins on the ADL (text in
>>>>>wrong direction)
>>>>That's because the emulator uses a TextField
>>>>>- it does not work when using TextField skins ( text displayed in the
>>>>>wrong direction).
>>>>>
>>>>>Do you mean it can't be a Flex bug, and it  is an AIR/FP bug ?
>>>>AIR is working properly.  I suppose you could try filing a bug that
>>>>the emulator should support RTL in the emulator but I think it is
>>>>probably documented that it isn't supported.  Flex decided not to use
>>>>FTE in the default mobile theme for performance reasons but that meant
>>>>that RTL would not be supported by default.  I have no idea how well
>>>>FTE skins work with StageText.
>>>>>
>>>>>Maurice
>>>>>
>>>>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>>>>De : Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Envoyé : lundi 20 janvier
>>>>>2014 09:20 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : Re: Anyone willing to help
>>>>>out with these regression / important issues?
>>>>>
>>>>>I thought RTL didn't work in TextField-based skins.
>>>>>
>>>>>On 1/19/14 3:46 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <maurice.amsel...@systar.com>
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I take this one for a start:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>FLEX-33972 - RTL text on iOS7.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I will take more as time allows...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Maurice
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>>>>>De : Justin Mclean [mailto:jus...@classsoftware.com] Envoyé :
>>>>>>dimanche
>>>>>>19 janvier 2014 03:54 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : Anyone willing
>>>>>>to help out with these regression / important issues?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>We have a list of issues that need fixing for the 4.12 release
>>>>>>anyone will to help out and fix them? [1]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>Justin
>>>>>>
>>>>>>1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33952
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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