# Put buttons on Dynamic Text..!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/put-buttons-on-dynamic-text/17723>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 8, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/put-buttons-on-dynamic-text/17723 "2003-04-08T16:13:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![filete](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/filete/32/124_2.png) [@filete](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/filete)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/put-buttons-on-dynamic-text/17723/1 "2003-04-08T16:13:26Z")

</div>

Hello there.

Does anyone knows how can you convert dynamic text to buttons?

I have a box with dynamic text and i want to make some words buttons  
to put some actions…

thank you,  
[www.filete.net](http://www.filete.net)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [April 8, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/put-buttons-on-dynamic-text/17723/2 "2003-04-08T16:21:57Z")

</div>

If you are loading the text through AS or an external .txt file then you can use

textBoxInstanceName.html = true;  
textBoxInstanceName.htmlText = textVariable;

This will html enable your textbox and tell it to convert the font formatting html tags in the file.

One of the tags Flash supports is the \<A HREF=‘url’\> tag.

But if you need to manipulate something inside your movie instead of opening a browser window then you should check out an undocumented function called ASFunction. Do a search on google for it, you can find useful information there 🙂

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [April 8, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/put-buttons-on-dynamic-text/17723/3 "2003-04-08T16:27:14Z")

</div>

Hi , lostinbeta

No, im not using external dynamic text…

I just using dynamic text to be able to make scroll boxes…  
But i can´t convert any word to button.  
I´ve tried to use invisible buttons, don´t work…!  
Can you tell how can you put some actions in this situation?

thanks,  
[www.filete.net](http://www.filete.net)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [April 8, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/put-buttons-on-dynamic-text/17723/4 "2003-04-08T16:38:32Z")

</div>

Well what are you trying to make these buttons do? Do they go to URLs or do they Manipulate your movie in some way?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [April 8, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/put-buttons-on-dynamic-text/17723/5 "2003-04-08T16:55:25Z")

</div>

I want them to load movieclips or fade in images…

[www.filete.net](http://www.filete.net)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [April 8, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/put-buttons-on-dynamic-text/17723/6 "2003-04-08T16:59:15Z")

</div>

Ok, so you want it to manipulate your movie.

In that case you can only do that with an undocumented (which also means unsupported) feature in Flash AS called ASFunction.

I have only used ASFunction like once or twice before, and I don’t think I can explain clearly how it works, so I recommend doing a search on google for it because you can probably find more useful information about it there than I can give you.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [April 8, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/put-buttons-on-dynamic-text/17723/7 "2003-04-08T17:03:38Z")

</div>

ok,  
I will check it out…

thanks,  
[www.filete.net](http://www.filete.net)