RollOver Events for TextField Links

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Hi,

So, I have this little job to run some events from rolling over http links in a textfield. Clicking is no big deal.

Anyway, I came up with this method, using the rectangles derived from getCharBoundaries to basically calculate a hitrect for each word.


var wordRect:Array = []
var tmpString:String = introTxt.text
			var strAr:Array = ["River Road", "Waikato River", "Hamilton City","Ngaruawahia"]
			
			var startRect:Rectangle
			var endRect:Rectangle
			
			for (var i:String in strAr) {
				startRect = introTxt.getCharBoundaries(tmpString.search(strAr*))
				endRect = introTxt.getCharBoundaries(tmpString.search(strAr*) + strAr*.length)
				wordRectArray.push([startRect.union(endRect),strAr*] )
			}
						
			trace(wordRectArray)

At the moment, it just pushes the rect and string in question into an array. I’m just gonna write a class that I’ll use instead of the array, which will handle dispatching back an event with the word and link’s url.

I dunno, is this the best approach to this problem. Am I missing something blindingly obvious about simulating rollOver events from text links?