Hello elibol, > Were your textfields multiline? No, they were just a row of links.
What you're trying to do is really interesting :-). As I can guess, to work with non-monospace fonts, your getWordRect function should be quite smart... Also, the only way I can imagine so far (in about 15 min) must probably use a lot of duplicate textfields to get all these dimensions. What do you think, how often the need for hover event in html text arises? -- Best regards, GregoryN ================================ http://GOusable.com Flash components development. Usability services. > ------- elibol wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Yea, really is funny... Were your textfields multiline? > > I've tried the img tag solution, the problem is that it does not snuggle > between text, the tag must be either left or right justified so it's never > where it should be. > > So far I've built a function that gets the x/y ( relative to textfield ) and > w/h of a string from a textfield. > > getWordRect(textField, searchString) > > This returns a rectangle object that describes the word rectangle. I am > planning to use this with a mouse hotspot class I've written a while ago. > This will allow me to pass the rectangle objects and create a hover entity > that will broadcast the entity {id,x,y,w,h} to the hover event handler. > > It's pretty fricken elaborate. I think this functionality will be useful as > Flex does not even support these kinds of functions so I will post this > stuff on my site soon. > > I plan to implement a getLineMetrics style function as the base code that > the getWordRect is driven with will allow me to do this relatively easily. > > I plan to build a sub function of getWordRect that will get all word > rectangles of a searchString. > > Word to the Adobe developers, I think this is functionality the TextField > class in Flex should implement. > > I also think htmlText for TextField Objects should have a realtime DOM. > > M. > > On 6/9/06, GregoryN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> well, >> >> The only solution I can suggest (and I've used it several times) is to >> make each of your links embedded into separate mc. >> >> But I was making just quite short html texts dynamically at runtime. >> >> Depending on situation you may have to embed an SWF within IMG tag and >> use some kind of flashvars to set it's behavior . >> Funny, isn't it? >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> GregoryN >> ================================ >> http://GOusable.com >> Flash components development. >> Usability services. >> _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
