Dropshadowfilter on textfield disables the html-links inside. Is there a way around this?

Question

When i put a dropshadowfilter on a dynamic textfield with html-content, the links (a href) stop working.The textfields rotate in flash 3D space so they have a transformmatrix applied to them. Could this be the reason? Anybody had problems with html-links and dropshadowfilter applied to the textfield? it makes no difference if you put the filter on the textfield itself or the movieclip container around it...

Answer 1

I've just tried it in 2 ways and they both worked.

1.using a movie clip as a container I created a dynamic text field I embedded the characters, set html to true, set the htmlText with a link... then placed all that inside a movie clip which I rotated in 3D.

Tried it and it worked.

2.not using a movie clip as a container. I created the dynamic text field, embedded characters and all of the above except placing it all inside a movie clip. I just rotated the text field in 3d using the transform matrix like you mentioned.

//my text field is called 'label'
label.htmlText = '<a href="http://stackoverflow.com"&gt;stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;';
var m3d:Matrix3D = new Matrix3D();
m3d.appendRotation(30,Vector3D.Y_AXIS);
label.transform.matrix3D = m3d;

This worked as well. Hope it helps