[flexcoders] TextField TextEvent.LINK mystery

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:23:17 -0700

Hello everybody,

Creating a multi-column HTML-Text Component, I have discovered a strange behavior in the TextField Class:
What I need is several Textfields that are not selectable. Now when I set myTextField.selectable = false, the TextField no longer captures TextEvent.LINK-event. That seems to be a known bug (see msg #36058 ).
Now the mystery:
When I add an MouseEvent.CLICK-eventListener to the TextField I seem to get around this bug and the TextEvent.LINK-event gets fired. But only when I display an Alert-box in the Click-event..
Example:
package
{
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import flash.events.TextEvent;
    import mx.controls.Alert;
    import mx.core.UIComponent;

    public class MyTextField extends UIComponent
    {
        private var _textField:TextField;
       
        override protected function createChildren():void {
            super.createChildren();
           
            _textField = new TextField();
            with (_textField) {
                htmlText = "<a href="" 1\">link 1</a> <a href="" 2\">link 2</a> no link";
                selectable = false;
                mouseWheelEnabled = false;
                addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, textClickListener);
                addEventListener(TextEvent.LINK, linkClickListener);
            }
            addChild(_textField);
        }
       
        private function textClickListener(e:MouseEvent):void {
            // I need to show this Alert box here to enable the TextEvent.LINK event
            Alert.show("Text clicked");
        }   
        private function linkClickListener(e:TextEvent):void {
            Alert.show("Link clicked: "+e.text);
        }
    }
}

If I place this component on the Stage and run the Application, I have to click once (anywhere) on the TextField to fire the CLICK-event and show the Alert box in order to enable the LINK-event.. Can anyone explain that to me? Or does anybody know another way to enable the LINK-event on non-selectable TextFields?

Thanks in advance and all the best,
Bastian
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