deep linking from xml to open function in Acionscript

Question

Hi,

I have general text in CDATA in my xml which is pulling in content into Flash. This is working well and I am able to add images this way too. What I need though is to wrap that image in an tag which, when clicked on will fire off a function in my Actionscript 2 to launch a video.

Could someone please tell me how I would go about this? Is there a better way than the way I am thinking right now?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I recently did this in AS3 but I found the AS2 way.

Tested it:

function myFunc(arg:String):Void 
{
     trace ("You clicked me!Argument was "+arg);
}

myTextField.htmlText ='<a href="asfunction:myFunc,Foo">Click Me!</a>';

You just use a href that is set to asfunction with a function name and something to pass along.

See:

http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary073.html

Just to give credit I found the initial code at: blog.activepoison.com/?p=25.