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Links In Dynamic Text
Hello,
I'm populating a dynamic text box with a bunch of HTML links. I would like these text links to call a function within Flash MX, but I can't get it to work.

Here is the code I'm using:

PHP Code:

linkarea += "<a href='show(" + a + "," + b + ");'>" + temp[0] + "</a> ";

The "show" function is a function I've created in an earlier frame, but it doesn't get called when the link is clicked. Is it possible to call Flash functions using HTML text in a dynamic text box? How do you do it (assuming it's possible)?

Thanks. B

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Dynamic Text & Links
Hello!

In a piece, I have a scrollable section of text. I'd like to make some of the text link to other movies... that can be loaded into that flash file. Is this possible?

Thanks

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Links In Dynamic Text
Hey, I currently have my text load dynamically and ive been told you can have links in dynamic text, if you could tell me how to do that it would be great!

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Hi there,

I am in a team, making a promotional CD for a company. They wish for the CD to be reusable, so that they can change it after we have left. For that, I have made all the text dynamic, so all they have to do is access the .html files and change the text within these files.

But this is where my problem occurs. I will need one word within that text to be a link, but linking to another scene within the movie (not an external url)....is there any way at all of doing this? only one word out of 50 will be a link, so i can't turn the whole thing into a button. Also, I need it to be scrollable, so thats another issue that needs to be thought about.

any help would be greatly appreciated. Hope you can help

-mike

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Dynamic Text As Links?
Hi.

Is it possible to have dynamic text as links?
I want them to work as buttons...as in click the button(the dynamic text) and it will load a swf into an empty mc.

If possible. Can anyone be nice and please explain how
Do I make the links in html in the txt-file from where I load the dyn. text or?

thanx in advance!

chris

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Links In Dynamic Text
hey,

i've got some text loading into dynamic text fields from external .txt files. html is enabled in the text, and i'd like to add some links to them. when i added the typical html <a href> tags, it added the link, but the entire text field from that point down became a hyperlink as well. and yes, i closed the <a> tag.

what am i doing wrong?

also, if it's possible to do what i'm trying to do, is it also possible to format and/or add a style to that .txt file so that the links have hover states and all that?

thanks...appreciate any help i can get!
Clint

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is it possible to define a link to a webpage when the address is in the middle of dynamicly loaded text? example:
"please visit the company website at www.thecompany.com for more information"

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Hello,
I'm deconstructing a flash movie I received and am trying to add a link to the dynamic text. Here is the code:

on (release) {
varX = 80;
varY = 15;
txt = "click here";
maintxt.txtb.text;
}

Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

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Links In Dynamic Text Box
is is possible to put a link, or possibly a picture in a dynamic text box?

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i cant seem to get the a href to work, the first line of text works but not the rest, cant seem to work it out.

&textfield=OUR FRIENDS LINKS
<a href ="http://www.website.co.uk

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Dynamic Text Links
Hi,

i called the text from xml into flash movie. now i need to link any word form that xml text. that link must be open in a movie clip only.

anytime i will change that text and links also. for example

"welcome, welcome1, welcome2
welcome3, welcome4, welcome5" this is one paragraph call from xml into flash dynamic text. now i need to link welcome1. if i click on welcome1, welcome1 related text must me open one movie clip(this txt also call from xml). next time i will change the text, now that link go to some other text for example welcome5, now welcome 5 is clickable. if i click welcome5, this related txt mustbe open in movie clip....

if there is any solutions plz let me now, it's very urgent for me....

ramana.

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Dynamic Text Links
hell-o!
need help.
i'm loading data from a text file into flash.
the data (link name and url) s would be displayed in movie clips using the attachMovie method.
everything works and the links appear but somehow they do not work.
i've used dynamic text and have clicked on the convert to html button.
my in the var field is siteName (my variable). that works. but for the link field, i've put urlName (my variable) but it doesn't convert the text into a hyperlink...
help! thanks!

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Dynamic Text With Links
I hope I describe this right.

At the current moment I have a file that has in a movie clip and within this MC, I have a load of text that are basically links.

Now these links are getting long and I was looking into loading these in dynamically probably using xml is the best way.

But my problem is that over each text is an invisible button that is the link, now how would I go about loading these text in then assigning a link to it.

All the links do is to change some variables that then the rest of the flash program uses to do things.

Hope this helps

thanks me

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I have a dynamic text box reading from a txt file, but is there a way to have the hyperlink work?

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I was curious...

I have a dynamic text box that allows a client to update text. All they do is open notepad and type away.

Now, My question is, by allowing HTML in the dynamic text box, is there a way to allow my client to add link HTML to the text in notepad and have it work in flash?

Simply put i need a way for my client to create and update their links dynamically in flash.

thanks
ZG

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Dynamic Text Links
Hi i was wondering if any one could help. I am making a load of dynamic text fields using the code below but for some reason i cant click on the text to make it go to the specified url. Does anyone know what i am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

ActionScript Code:
var ex = randomRangeInteger(0, Stage.width-40);
var why = randomRangeInteger(0, Stage.height-10);
_root.createTextField("my_txt"+i, 100+i, ex, why, 300, 100);
my_txt = "my_txt"+i;
_root[my_txt].multiline = true;
_root[my_txt].wordWrap = true;
var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.color = 0x999999;
my_fmt.font = "Arial";
my_fmt.size = fontsize;
my_fmt.bold = true;
_root[my_txt].selectable = false;
my_fmt.url = "http://www.";
my_fmt.target = "_blank";
_root[my_txt].text = imagenamearray[i];
_root[my_txt].setTextFormat(my_fmt);

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Dynamic Text With Links?
I'm setting up a site with a simple dynamic "News Box" in the SWF, where the text will be updated by my client in a text file.

Is it possible to set it up so the client can not only enter their desired text, but also make each item a text link to a separate news story?

I can't imagine simple html code would work within a dynamic text box.

Any suggestions?

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Links In Dynamic Text Box
I'm trying to load a .txt file with html coding into a dynamic text box. I was able to load a simple .txt file but I can't seem to get flash to render the text as html. This is possible right? I know there's a little box to in the properties window that says 'render text as html' but having that checked doesn't help.

For example: The .txt file would contain:

var="<a href="link">Click Here</a>"

And my text box would load 'var'. Then flash would read the variable as html and simply render 'Click Here' as a link to the URL.

This should be very easy to do and I've searched the posts for about an hour and can't find any help. There's got to be something obvious I'm missing.

Thanks so much; in advance.

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Dynamic Text Links - XML
Ok, I'm a real novice when it comes to code so I'm hoping someone out there can help me.

I have a band site that I has tour dates loading via xml into the flash site. The tour dates can be clicked on to take you to the Venue's website. The problem, and I'm sure it's insanely simple is, I would like the link to open a new browser window (target = "blank"), Where in my code can I put this? I've gotten it this far and I'm going nuts now...

Thanks in advance,
Mike.

See attached code:

Attach Code

var myarray = new Array ();
var myxml = new XML ();
myxml.ignoreWhite = true;
myxml.onLoad = function ()
{
var header, link;
for (var i = 0; i < this.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++)
{
if (this.firstChild.childNodes[i].nodeName != null)
{
header = this.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.header;
for (var j = 0; j < this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes.length; j++)
{
if (this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[j].nodeName == "link")
{
link = this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[j].firstChild.nodeValue;
}
}
myarray.push (new struct (header, link));
}
}
window = "";
for (i = 0; i < myarray.length; i++)
{
window += "<a href="" + myarray[i].link + "">" + myarray[i].header + "</a> ";
}
};
function struct (header, link)
{
this.header = header;
this.link = link;
}
myxml.load ("dbase.xml");

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I have been trying without success to get dynamic text to link to documents such as pdf, txt etc. I have tried by creating a transparent button and placing the dyn text on top, by rendering the text as html etc. I am able to create text links to a url, but not to open a document or application in the same folder.

Any clues?

Thanks.

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Can anyone help with this? I'm trying to get text on a screen to link to documents (that will be on a CD, currently on my hard drive) such as pdf, txt etc. Using Flash 9.

Thanks.

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hey guys its been a while since ive posted for myself lol i knew it would cum though anyway I am about to add descriptions for components on my site and want to have a dynamicly loaded text scroller with links in it so it shows up like this

component1 Description
component2 Description

u get the idea anyway how do i go about it i aint got PHP access or cgi i dont think so it'll have to be easy

-Tom

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Alright, now I've searched for over an hour trying to find out what exactly is wrong with my code to no avail...

Here's the deal: I have a dynamic text box which loads variables from a PHP file (which in turn loads everything from a mySQL database) and there are links in it. When loaded, the links look like links, but they do not act like links. They are not clickable at all. I don't understand what's wrong because I used the same exact technique on another site (actually the predecessor of what I'm working on) and it worked perfectly.

If you'd like to see the site in (beta) action, go here.

Here is the code I am using to load up the stuff...

ActionScript Code:
list1Up._visible = (list1.maxscroll>1);list1Down._visible = (list1.maxscroll>1);list1Scroll._visible = (list1.maxscroll>1);list1.onChanged = function() { list1Up._visible = (list1.maxscroll>1); list1Down._visible = (list1.maxscroll>1); list1Scroll._visible = (list1.maxscroll>1);};list2Up._visible = (list2.maxscroll>1);list2Down._visible = (list2.maxscroll>1);list2Scroll._visible = (list2.maxscroll>1);list2.onChanged = function() { list2Up._visible = (list2.maxscroll>1); list2Down._visible = (list2.maxscroll>1); list2Scroll._visible = (list2.maxscroll>1);};var lyricsFormat = new TextField.StyleSheet();lyricsFormat.load("http://s90122713.onlinehome.us/flash/styles/lyrics.css");loadSongList = new LoadVars();loadSongList.load("http://s90122713.onlinehome.us/flash/lyrics.php");loadSongList.onLoad = function() { list1.styleSheet = lyricsFormat; list1.html = true; list1.htmlText = this.list1; list2.styleSheet = lyricsFormat; list2.html = true; list2.htmlText = this.list2;};lyricsUp._visible = (lyrics.maxscroll>1);lyricsDown._visible = (lyrics.maxscroll>1);lyricsScroll._visible = (lyrics.maxscroll>1);lyrics.onChanged = function() { lyricsUp._visible = (lyrics.maxscroll>1); lyricsDown._visible = (lyrics.maxscroll>1); lyricsScroll._visible = (lyrics.maxscroll>1);};lyrics.text = "Select a song from above...";loadSong = new function( songNum ) { lyrics.styleSheet = lyricsFormat; lyrics.html = true; lyrics.htmlText = "Loading lyrics..." lyrics = new LoadVars(); lyrics.load("http://s90122713.onlinehome.us/flash/lyrics.php?songNum=" + songNum); lyrics.onLoad = function() { lyrics.htmlText = this.lyrics; };};this.stop();

And here is what the PHP feeds into Flash:

PHP Code:

&list1=<a href="asfunction:loadSong,1">Failure to Delay</a> &list2=<a href="asfunction:loadSong,2">Fade to Honesty</a> 

I'd post the PHP code in entirety, but it's not giving me any problems at all. The way I did it before was with .txt files, but the formatting was exactly the same...

Also, if there is any way to optimize that code that I don't know of, it would be great if anybody could help me out on that too

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Dynamic Text With Links..
Hi,

I have a dynamic text field where I import the text from a php file. It is html-enabled and some words are links in that text to other parts of the Flash file.

The text can be something like this:

PHP Code:

$alotoftext = "asd asd sad asd as ds da sds d <a href="asfunction, link, 1">This is a link</a> and some more text";

Is it possible to do a "hover/over" function for that link? Maybe change the color of the text or something else?

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I was working on designing a site completely in flash, and after i got all the basics down, i had the problem of trying to make links within the dynamic text boxes (dynamic cause they scroll and such) now, i know how to make a link to a website, but what i need is a link to another frame. So, when someone clicks on one word out of the whole paragraph, that would send them to frame x. I could have made it so where it would link to would be on another page, but i'm trying to keep everything on one page in one swf file.

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Hi - i have created a dynamic text box with the scroll bar component attached and all works fine. I was just wondering how i would make links on certain bits of text so that its clickable to goto a website?

and by the way the link im trying to get working in this text box is to "Kirupa.com" so yeah please help...

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Hi guys,

I recently did the dynamic text tutorial which is posted on the site and it was pretty useful thanks!

What I want to do is make the text that displays in the dynamic box clickable (make it a link)

However, I don't want to do this from the .fla since this has to be updated from the .txt file. I was told that this is possible somehow with <a href> tag but I am not having any luck in understanding the concept of it.

I would appreciate it if someone can show me how to do it or direct me to some tutorial.

thanks a lot!

n.

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Links In Dynamic Text
i'm bringing text in from an xml file into a dyn text box. is there anyway to incorporate a hyperlink in that dynamic text? i want to have a paragraph and then have links in it.

the dyn text box text will change depending on user interaction and different links from the xml will appear.

should be simple... so far no luck using tags and render as html option...

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hi

i used a tutorial found here called
'links in a dynamic text box'
& have compatibility issues with 'safari'
[mac browser]-
i was wondering if there's any way around?
thanks, & great site!

alex

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So, now I have dynamic text working nicely (thanks Cello!) but of course I'm never satisfied!

I can specify external links using HTML <a> tags, but can I link to another frame or a movie clip? For example, one line of text will say 'please click here to contact me' and I'd like the word 'here' to be a link to a frame that I have labelled 'contact' (which will be a contact form).

Thanks :-)

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Hey guys,

Hopefully this can be done.

I have a horizontal bar in the format:

Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4

Depending on data retrieved from an XML file.

The thing is, these links are going to be varying in length. And each one needs to call a different function (to open different pages).

How do you suggest I do this?

I guess I could always do it static, but dynamic would make it so much easier in the long run.

Thanks in advance to anyone who offers their advice.

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Ok, I'm a real novice when it comes to code so I'm hoping someone out there can help me.

I have a band site that I has tour dates loading via xml into the flash site. The tour dates can be clicked on to take you to the Venue's website. The problem, and I'm sure it's insanely simple is, I would like the link to open a new browser window (target = "blank"), Where in my code can I put this? I've gotten it this far and I'm going nuts now...

Thanks in advance,
Mike.

See attached code:

Attach Code

Code:

var myarray = new Array ();
var myxml = new XML ();
myxml.ignoreWhite = true;
myxml.onLoad = function ()
{
var header, link;
for (var i = 0; i < this.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++)
{
 if (this.firstChild.childNodes[i].nodeName != null)
 {
 header = this.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.header;
 for (var j = 0; j < this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes.length; j++)
 {
 if (this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[j].nodeName == "link")
 {
 link = this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[j].firstChild.nodeValue;
 }
 }
 myarray.push (new struct (header, link));
 }
}
window = "";
for (i = 0; i < myarray.length; i++)
{
 window += "<a href="" + myarray[i].link + "">" + myarray[i].header + "</a> ";
}
};
function struct (header, link)
{
this.header = header;
this.link = link;
}
myxml.load ("dbase.xml");

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Links Within A Dynamic Text Box
Hey,

ok, heres a run down of what I'd like to do...
I've got a dynamic text box that loads text from an XML file. I want to be able to have certain parts of this text as links, to call another XML file to be loaded.

for example
Textbox contains
----------
Student Association

The SA represents ........
some of the services provided by the SA include:
Unibar
Shop
Photocopying
----------------

and the services text would call another XML file, that contains the text for that service.

Is it possible to do this using XML?? If so, how so??

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Hi alls..

I've been working with a dynamic text load thingie with flash.. and figured it out pretty good.

You have a flash file and a external .TXT file.. you write your text in the .txt and it appears in the dynamic text field within flash.

Now I was wondering is there a way to set certain texts as links? with a code or something within the .TXT file?

Thanks...

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hello,
is it possible using <a href> tags within dynamic text point into the movie somehow? ie i dont want to load an external url, i just want the movie to respond to the user clicking on the link..any ideas

thx

jolly

p.s. if you see this twice, sorry didn't think it worked first time round

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I am working on a complicated database project in Flash 5, I also have Flash MX I need to be using it instead. I have a data base with Names and phone numbers. This is for a CD ROM project so that I can run a database of of the CD ROM. To preface what I have already;
In the flash movie you type in the search box someone's last name it pulls up everyone in the database with that last name and their phone number. What I want to do is when the names are displayed they are links to their addresses. Example: I am looking for "John Johnson" So when I type in "Johnson" the database pulls every one with the last name of Johnson. I find John Johnson and click on it so that I can see his address. Is it possible for flash to recognize certain variables and make into a link which references another part of the database with their address???
Thanks for the help.

Aloha.....

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Hi Everyone,

So I've got a client who is asking for hover states on text links that are being created dynamically from either a .txt file, database or XML file (that hasn't been determined yet).

I've never had to play too much with dynamic text from external files other than some basic .txt file stuff. I know that you can use html and that gives you the basic html type link rollovers but I think my client would rather see something more graphic for the hover state.

My questions are these: 1) is this possible? 2) if so.. any ideas how? links to tutorials or articles would be great. Thanks in advance everyone.

slan,
Pat

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