Links within dynamic text box?

programming flash
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Hello all,
My question is how can I add multiple links within a dynamically loaded paragraph of text?

Thanks, LOTW

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This is quite easy and useful.

make sure your text field is set to allow HTML text in it. simply put in a regular html link like so:

for just a straight link somewhere:

text = “<a href=“http://www.somewhere.com”>click here</a>”;

to have it open up in new window:
text = “<a href=“http://www.somewhere.com” target=“blank”>click here</a>”;

to have it perform a function in flash:

text = “<a href=“asfunction:funcName,param1”>click here</a>”;

this makes a link in the text box just like it would in html… when you click “click here” it will call the actionscript function
funcName(param1);

you can add as many of these as you want and populate the variable that holds your text through an loops, loadVars(), arrays, whatever.

I have a site that i am using these on quite a bit… check it out www.circol.net click “find construction links”. Most of the data is sent into flash through asp/sqlServer and some like the “select category” process are all sent in and put in an array to search through, find appropriate search criteria, and continue in flash.

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This is quite easy and useful.

make sure your text field is set to allow HTML text in it. simply put in a regular html link like so:

!! please note that everything below should be in complete html tags below… a & /a should both have the > and < around it!! can’t put those on here or will not show up on post

for just a straight link somewhere:

text = “a href=“www.somewhere.com”>click here/a”;

to have it open up in new window:

text = “a href=“www.somewhere.com” target=“blank”>click here/a”;

to have it perform a function in flash:

text = “a href=“asfunction:funcName,param1”>click here/a”;

this makes a link in the text box just like it would in html… when you click “click here” it will call the actionscript function
funcName(param1);

you can add as many of these as you want and populate the variable that holds your text through an loops, loadVars(), arrays, whatever.

I have a site that i am using these on quite a bit… check it out www.circol.net click “find construction links”. Most of the data is sent into flash through asp/sqlServer and some like the “select category” process are all sent in and put in an array to search through, find appropriate search criteria, and continue in flash.

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Thanks tavisau, for the info… But

I don’t know why, but this makes no sense to me at all.

In my text box,with the render html enabled, i typed in this, text=“a href=“http://www.cnn.com”>CNN/a” And the opening, closing <>. And that’s what I get that exactly, no link just what i typed.

So am I putting it the wrong place? I have no Idea. Could you post a demo .fla so I can see exactly what’s going on?

Any thoughts, LOTW

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Thanks tavisau, for the info… But

I don’t know why, but this makes no sense to me at all.

In my text box,with the render html enabled, i typed in this, text=“a href=“http://www.cnn.com”>CNN/a” And the opening, closing <>. And that’s what I get that exactly, no link just what i typed.

So am I putting it the wrong place? I have no Idea. Could you post a demo .fla so I can see exactly what’s going on?

Any thoughts, LOTW

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put that code with the tags in a variable and then set the text field to display the variable.

set it in properties box for text field or using flash 6 method in ex attached

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just download ex at http://www.circol.net/examples/linkexample.zip

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Thanks Travisua,

I kind of understand now. but how would you add more than one link? Also, how would you be able to place that link inside a paragraph that you have typed? For example…

"This is a paragraph that I have typed inside a text box. [COLOR=blue]LINK[/COLOR] This is where i want one of my links to display. how would I get it to display here?

Thanks for the example, LOTW

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look up string functions in action script dictionary…

use a + to add fields together.

so “blah blah blah blah<BR><BR>” + someVariable + "blah blah a href=“www.link.com”>link here</a

again missing a few < and >

but basically just add your text together…

make sure you use " which is the escape character for ". you have to use that when putting together strings in flash. I usually use arrays to list multiple links in text windows…
ex:

linkList = “company1,company2,company3”;
// just a basic string

linkArray = linkList.split(",");
// make an array out of the basic string declared above… this populates the array by using the “,” as a delimter. so after doing this your array will be:

linkArray[0] --> “company1”
linkArray[1] --> “company2”
etc…

now make another array of the actual links:
httpList=“http://www.company1.com,http://www.company2.com,http://www.company3.com”;
httpArray = httpList.split(",");

now to make your paragraph with all five links in it:

display = “”; // this is your variable to hold the final text display value, you will set your text field to display this variable.

for ( i=0; i<=linkArray.length; i++) {
display += (i+1) + “. <a href=”" + linkArray* + “” target="_blank"></a><BR>";
}

+= is the same thing is using display = display + “…”;

your results will look like:

  1. Company1 (it will be a link and clicking will open up in a new window http://www.company1.com

check out example at http://www.circol.net/examples/links2.fla

thats about all i can show you… adding anything else is just basic variable manipulation… should be plenty of tutorials out there for that. good luck

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Hey that makes more sense.

Thanks for all your help, Travisau. Ill give that a try.

LOTW