Hyperlinks in Flash

1

Ok here’s a good question for all you flash geeks out there. I’m puting together my portfolio site. In the portfolio section I want to be able to create links to my work in a dynamic text box.

See I’m using a dynamicaly loaded text from a txt file. Is it possible to use HTML in the txt file and have it work once loaded into flash. I want to creat the links to my portfolio work in the txt file itself. Is it possible?

2

yes its possible:
Have an external text file (I’ll call it “html.txt” for an example)
in the text file I’ve type this:
text=a href="http://www.kirupa.com"Kirupa/a

(enter the appropriate < and > tags)

in a frame in the movie enter the actionscript:
loadVariablesNum (“html.txt”, 1); //loads text file at level 1

make a dynamic text box after the frame where you’ve loaded the text file and call the variable field:
_level1.text //this calls the dynamically loaded text file

Make sure that the properties of the dynamic text box have the html tags toggle turned on.

I can send you some files if I didn’t make sense.

3

well I already have the text box and I’m already loading txt files for my home page and my about section. Here the code:

loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load(“home.txt”);
//creating the loadVarsText function
loadText.onLoad = function() {
scroller.text = this.hometext;
};

Do I have to alter this code at all to get the link tags to work?

Also where is the button to turn on html tags? I can’t find it in the properties bar

4

just a bit… :wink:

loadText.onLoad = function() {
scroller.html = true;
scroller.htmlText = this.hometext;
}
5

should I paste that under the code I already have?

Thanks for all you help

6

not exactly… replace the onLoad event handler you have with the one i posted :wink:

loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("home.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
scroller.html = true;
scroller.htmlText = this.hometext;
}
7

now when I’m doing the markup in the txt file do I need the <html> tags and the <body> tags? Or just the <a href> tags?

8

Just the <a href> tag

Since Flash only formats certain font formatting tags, your HTML and BODY tags will not be formatted, but will instead be printed out with the rest of the text.

9

okay I’ve got the link working. Now how do I get it to open in a new window once the link is clicked?

10 
<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="url">linktext</A>

I believe the target attribute works in Flash as well.

11

Yeah it does but it would have to be target=’_blank’ as the " will give you actionscript errors.

12

Ah, yes you are right, I wasn’t thinking about there actually being double quotes around the whole tag, I just wrote out the HTML code.

My fault… good catch :wink:

13

OK I’m a little confused.

<A TARGET="_blank" HREF=“url”>linktext</A>

So do I actually type in _blank? Or do I need to put something else there? Also do I put the quotes around _blank or something else?

14

Just switch from double quotes to single quotes…

<A TARGET='_blank' HREF='url'>linktext</A>
15

wow, this forum is always full of such helpfull people!! :beam:

So now it opens in a new window. One more question. Is there a way to have the text show up underlined like a regualr hyperlink? Or should I just underline it in the txt file?

16

Just use the underline HTML tag.

<U>text</U>
17

sweet! I didn’t know if that would work. I guess I should have tried.

18

Font formatting tags work.


<I></I>
<U></U>
<B></B>
<BR>
<FONT FACE='font' COLOR='#000000' SIZE='1'></FONT>

Etc etc, I don’t know all the exact tags that work, but there aren’t many, so just try it out and see if it works if you aren’t sure :slight_smile:

19

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/htmltext.htm

20

:cool: thanks kax, I was being lazy and didn’t feel like looking for it.