Question says it all really, but I don't mind if any answers are AS2 or AS3 solutions, just curious really - seems weird that I couldn't find out how to do this really quickly.
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A:
Can't you add an event listener to it? Or perhaps set the htmlText's event and handle the event as it arises. Some information can be found here and also here.
nevets1219
2010-03-01 21:50:50
Ooops, missed this reply, will investigate tomorrow, thank you very much for your help too!
Danjah
2010-03-03 21:15:37
Ok, yeh the linked tut (for AS3) said enough to make me think this was also helpful, thanks again both.
Danjah
2010-06-10 03:02:36
A:
AS2
If your using a dynamic text field I assume your filling it with html content. Since this is pure html inside the field it doesn't have a relation between the event model and the html. You need to have an object to access the event model in AS2.
AS3
But in AS3 you can use the event keyword in the href.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/text/TextField.html#event:link
http://troyworks.com/blog/2008/03/14/flash-textfield-actionscript-hyperlink-in-as30/
JeremySpouken
2010-03-01 21:57:27
Thanks very much for that, I suspected as much for AS2, stoked about the AS3 solution.
Danjah
2010-03-03 21:13:44