Rollover using dynamic text

programming flash
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Here is my question…
I loaded my text into a dynamic text box. But I would like to isolate certain words within the paragraph. For example, when i mouseover a certain word, it brings up a definition. The same way a button would trigger a popup.

It’s no problem to make the entire dynamic text box act like a button but not in isolated word. Any ideas?

Thanks,

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Hi,
I always use use html to achieve that together with the asfunction command.

Find more on asfunction on http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/asfunction.htm.

SHO

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From sen’s website:

http://www.umbc.edu/interactive/fla/wordselect.fla

Does that help ?

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I think the ASfunction did the trick for me. I didn’t know about that.

Voetsjoeba, thanks for the flash file. I didn’t even know that was possible. Normally i can figure stuff out my looking at the code but my level of scripting is still quite basic. (I don’t even know how you figured that out! Maybe i will have a need for somthing like that down the road.) All I really needed to be able to do is to make a popup with the definition of the word when you click on it.

thanks for all the help
Rob

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u r welcome

SHO

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What code do you have to pop up the description ?

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I wouldn’t really call what i do code. I am just using the _visible tag because that is all i know how to do. It works although it may not be the most sophisticated method. I am always open to ideas.

Hey, I just realized you are from Belgium. Very cool! I am an American living in Gembloux.

Cheers,
Rob

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Well, that depends actually. If you want to make quite static items (like the text), so without too much animation, you can use _visible = false. But if the item has a lot of animations, you should use another way.