You CAN use html links to do complex actionscript. Look up
'asfunction' in the help. Briefly, it's something like:
//1. Place a dynamic text field on the stage, instance name 'myTextField',
// and Enable the checkbox 'Render text as HTML'
//2. Place this code on the _root:
myTextField.htmlText = '<a href="asfunction:goClick">Click Me</a>';
function goClick()
{
trace("You clicked on the link! Put more code here...");
}
-David R
On 11/10/05, Millie Niss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello---
>
> I hope someone can help me with this problem, which I have had a bunch of
> times in Flash: I often make hypertext in Flash by making an invisible
> button and placing instances of it on a layer above the text I want to make
> clickable. I make the button by having nothing in the up, over, or down
> frames and a square in the hit frame. Then when you drag the button onto the
> stage, it appears as a transparent blue square which you can resize and place
> over the text you want people to click, and then you define call-back
> functions on each instance to make it execute whatever code is desired... (I
> can't use HTML links to do what I want since I want complex Actionscript to
> execute when there is a click, not just to load a web page...)
>
> Unfortunately, when I test my movies sometimes, the acual hot area is not
> quite where the blue area is in the authoring environment. I just did a
> piece with 30 hyperlinked words this way, and the buttons had to be
> positioned by trial and error and to make them work, they had to be put at
> least 30 pixels offset from where it looked like they should be placed.
>
> Does anyone have an explanation or fix for this? It happens only in some
> projects and I always create the invisible buttn the same way. I am using
> Flash MX 2004 Pro on a PC/Win XP.
>
> Millie
> www.sporkworld.org
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