Help with TLF text

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Hey all,

I’m having an extremely difficult time understanding how to work with this new text engine. There’s not much available online in the way of examples (I’m a mid-level to low programmer), and the Actionscript 3.0 bible that I got tends to go over my head when it comes to this.

Here’s the problem:

[LIST]
[]I have a TLF textbox on the stage named allText with text inside it.
[]Some text has html markup tags
[*]Some text is formatted locally
[/LIST]

At runtime I set the text to htmlText in order to format the marked up text. This strips the tlfMarkup or local formatting. When I store the tlfMarkup in a string, set the htmlText, then set the tlfMarkup on the textfield, it doesn’t work. It seems I can only have one or the other.

Anyone have any idea how I could have both? I have zero understanding of TextFlow and all that, so forgive me if there’s an easy solution here. Thanks!

Here’s my init function:

public var textformat = new TextFormat();
		public function init(font = "Trebuchet MS", size = 12, color = 0x000000):void
		{
			
			textformat.color = color;
			textformat.font = font;
			textformat.size = size;
			
			
			var test = allText.tlfMarkup;
			trace(test);
			
			allText.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
			allText.selectable = false;
			allText.defaultTextFormat = textformat;
			allText.setTextFormat(textformat);
			allText.tlfMarkup = test;
			allText.htmlText = allText.text;
			
			allText.wordWrap = true;
			allText.embedFonts = true;
			
			
		}