# Hyperlinking text or somthing similar

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hyperlinking-text-or-somthing-similar/10779>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 7, 2003, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hyperlinking-text-or-somthing-similar/10779 "2003-01-07T07:56:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![zephn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/5f8ce5/32.png) [@zephn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zephn)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hyperlinking-text-or-somthing-similar/10779/1 "2003-01-07T07:56:13Z")

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I am in need of help. I have spent days looking for an answer. I’ll be brief in my description of the problem.

I Desire: A scrollable list of in flash. This list will be of every satuday in the last year.  
You click on a date and a separate window opens with swf file I have made containing pictures frome ach particular saturday.  
I need to be able to continually add saturdays as time goes by.

My problems: If I make a scrollable list of words, it allows me to link to url’s if I use static text but I have no conrol on the window proportions. it opens full size and stretches my small .swf  
When I mask text it does no appear in the movie.  
I tried making buttons of it and I have to mask a scrollable button clip but masking it once again hides the text.

If I could just make a listbox and make all the entries I make open a link in a new windo that would be my easiest solution. Is this possible or are there any other solutions?

Andrew

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hyperlinking-text-or-somthing-similar/10779/2 "2003-01-07T09:08:17Z")

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Im not 100% sure by what you are after.

What you can do is create your list.  
Make sure you create the text as buttons.  
Then you can place some AS (action script) on the buttons that will make it open a new window.

AS ::

on (release) {  
getURL(“yourname.html”, “\_blank”);  
}

I think its blank, if not its “\_parent”. Cant remember i havnt used it in a while, but one of them will work

=)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hyperlinking-text-or-somthing-similar/10779/3 "2003-01-07T17:21:16Z")

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is there a way to create a static text, link it to a url in a SEPARATE window AND most importantly control the size of the new window. ie: 400 pixels by 400 pixels with no address bar etc etc.

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/centered\_popup.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/centered_popup.asp)

This tutorial is only for buttons which you can aplly actionscript directly to it.

If you guys knwo of a way I will worship you forever.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hyperlinking-text-or-somthing-similar/10779/4 "2003-01-07T18:23:10Z")

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in html it’s as simple as typing an a href and opening it ina new window with size parameters specified.  
Why does it have to be a button to  
-control the size of the new window and  
-to make it open in a separate window.

I have seen flash sites that source a .txt file and in the .txt file is alot of html stuff. Could I program the .txt file with html to open my links in separate window?