Adobe® Flex® 4 Language Reference
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flashx.textLayout.formats 
Direction 
Packageflashx.textLayout.formats
Classpublic final class Direction
InheritanceDirection Inheritance Object

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 10, AIR 1.5

Defines values for setting the direction property of the TextLayoutFormat class. Left-to-right reading order is used in Latin-style scripts. Right-to-left reading order is used with scripts such as Arabic or Hebrew.

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Public Constants
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  LTR : String = "ltr"
[static] Specifies left-to-right direction for text.
Direction
  RTL : String = "rtl"
[static] Specifies right-to-left direction for text.
Direction
Constant Detail

LTR

Constant
public static const LTR:String = "ltr"

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 10, AIR 1.5

Specifies left-to-right direction for text.

RTL

Constant 
public static const RTL:String = "rtl"

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 10, AIR 1.5

Specifies right-to-left direction for text.