How to create a textbutton in flash using Action script 3

Question

When i tried using a textfield as a button , it seems it is not having the buttonMode property.

So can anyone tell me, how can i programatically create a text button using Action script in a flash project. It should be a simple text, which is clickable.

Answer 1

What if you use a button object and style it in the way of a clickable text.

Answer 2

I don't really understand your question! If its a static text, then you can put a LinkButton or if its a place where user can input text, then add an event listener for the textfield:

myTextField.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,clickListener);

function clickListener(e:Event):void
{
    // if a user clicks the textfield this function will be called
}

Answer 3

You can use a TextField, set the text format as you wish, set selectable to false, etc. If you want the hand cursor, just nest the textfield into a sprite, and set mouseChildren to false.

e.g.

var textButton:Sprite = getTextButton('Push Me!');
addChild(textButton);
textButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(event:MouseEvent){trace('click')});

function getTextButton(label:String):Sprite{
    var txt:TextField = new TextField();
    txt.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat('Verdana',10,0x000000);
    txt.text = label;
    txt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
    txt.background = txt.border = true;
    txt.selectable = false;
    var btn:Sprite = new Sprite();
    btn.mouseChildren = false;
    btn.addChild(txt);
    btn.buttonMode = true;
    return btn;
}

Answer 4

You can add the TextField to a Sprite and use it as the button. buttonMode is the property of Sprite class.

If you really want to use just a TextField, you can assign an anchor tag <a href="event:something">label</a> to its htmlText or listen to mouseOver and mouseOut events and show a custom hand cursor after hiding the default mouse pointer using Mouse.hide()