Display HTML text in the Adobe Air Label

Question

I am trying to display HTML text inside the Label in my Adobe Air mobile application, so far

I realized that Label doesn't support HTML, I went through the few solutions I found so far on the web:

1. Instead of Label - User TextArea and then use:

   StyleableTextField(message.textDisplay).htmlText = messageText; 
   

   and in the TextArea declaration - specify mobile skin

   <s:TextArea editable="false" selectable="false" skinClass="spark.skins.mobile.TextAreaSkin" id="message" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" paddingLeft="5" paddingRight="5" textAlign="left"/>
   

   First of all, HTML still doesn't work, instead of converted HTML it just shows me ..... garbage, but even if it would have worked - TextArea component looks different than Label and doesn't feet in the design I am implementing.

2. User RichText component - unfortunately it's not supported in mobile apps

Any other ideas?

Answer 1

Yes, HTML is not supported in the Label and TextArea components for Spark (it was supported in Halo, or the mx components).

The only Flex components that officially do support it are RichText and RichEditableText. The skins for these components are not mobile optimized, but they run on mobile just fine. You may run into some speed issues when using massive amounts of it, but you can still use them (as you can with most, if not all, other components that aren't mobile optimized).