Linking Dynamic Text

programming flash
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We’re working with Flash 5 (yeah, I know MX can do this, but for a variety of reasons, we’ve chosen to implement using 5) and are seeking to link dynamic text to a mailto: link.

Essentially, someone comes to the site, when they login their email address is passed to the final flash file, fill in some other text to create dynamic text within the flash animation and ‘voila’ a dynamic flash-based movie is created (similar to Blue Mountain Arts).

What we’re trying to do is lik the email address (passed during login) as a mailto: link so that when the receiver ‘clicks’ on the link, their email program opens and they can send an email.

Thoughts, suggestions, ideas?

Thanks.

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You could make an invisible button over where the e-mail is displayed. Then just have the AS in the button have a mailto: concatinated to a variable holding the e-mail address. You text won’t be the button but it will look that way.

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You can do this by just creating a button using dynamic text on any given layer.

on the hit state make sure you cover all of your text with the appropriately sized object.

set the action of the button to getUrl and then

mailto:whoever@whoever.com