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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I use obedit in my proprietary commercial project?
Yes. obedit v3.03 (and onward) is released under the LGPL license. I have decided to take donations as opposed to paid licensing because I don't have the time to support the product and that is expected when you pay for something. So, no payment and no support. Win-win!
For those of you who asked about using v3.01 or v3.02 for commercial purposes, please download v3.03 and begin your projects!
Can obedit do tables and images?
No, at least not well enough to be really useful. The Flash textField object, which is used for the editing window, has very limited support for HTML features beyond basic attributes (bold, italic, underline, bullets)... It is also virtually unusable with images in editing mode.
Can obedit output or edit XHTML/CSS documents?
Not directly. In v3.01, I created an output filter that will take the native Flash-HTML output (obHTML as I call it) and convert it to standards-compliant XHTML. However, obedit is incapable of reading this output back in and allowing you to edit the document in this state. Thus, the output filter must run on the code when it is displayed to the browser, as opposed to before saving the document to a database or other storage medium.
Until Adobe improves the functionality of the textField object - for example, allowing the textField object to stay editable when a stylesheet is applied - there is not much I can do about this. Please write Adobe and request better stylesheet support for editable text fields!
Is there a manual for obedit?
Documentation is something obedit is in need of, and so far I have not organized myself enough to write it. The comments in the source code thus far are the closest thing to a manual you will find. If you're interested in helping with documentation, contact me!
Can you add {insert feature here} for me?
Sorry - not until further notice. obedit was really written as a programmer's project for other programmers to learn from and build onto. If you need help with Flash or PHP, check out my links page for links to various Flash developer communities.