[AS3] TextField htmlText <img> src as Class

[Baby Minion]

Hey flashkit,

I'm having a rough time finding an answer to this. (I've searched and searched...)

I am trying to build a form in a flash project.
I want to use one (1) textfield and embed the form controls in it using the <img> tag.

This works fine with library items (as the docs suggest and from long ago apps I've worked on), but I don't have a .fla for this project.

Instead, I want it to embed an instance of a class in there.

ex.

var txt:TextField = new TextField ();
txt.htmlText = "age: <img src='com.bit101.components.NumericStepper'/>"; 

Can this be done? If not, is there a workaround?

[Baby Minion]

Well, here is what I have found...


You CAN make a .fla with a library item exported for actionscript, and use that in the htmlText of the swf generated from that fla.
You CAN make that library item an interactive movieclip. (ie, clicks, animations etc...)

You CANNOT create a .swc from a .fla and use that swc library item in a htmlText.
You CANNOT just use an arbitrary class as the src

//(Symbol1 is a movieclip library item with just a rectangle drawn in it)
import flash.text.TextField;

var txt:TextField = new TextField();
txt.width = txt.height = 150;
txt.border = true;
txt.htmlText =  "age: <img src='Symbol1' height='10' width='10' align='right'><br>";
txt.htmlText += "name: <img src='Symbol1' height='10' width='10' align='right'><br>";
addChild(txt); 

this simple example looks terrible and I see nothing wrong with it

The text all appears on one line, and it looks as if only one Symbol1 is drawn in.

This is a terrible realization, and it makes me quite sad that I cannot find a solution to my problem.