Support for right to left layouts in Flex 4.x (aka Mirroring)

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a new feature in the Flex SDK that we’ve been calling “Layout Mirroring”. Since flash player 10’s text engine now supports right to left text, it was a natural progression for the Flex SDK to support RTL (right to left) layouts. This feature did not [...]

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