[flexcoders] Trouble with hand cursor over mx:Text

[whatabrain]

The only way I'm able to show the hand cursor over an mx:Text element is
if I both define the cursor in the style, and include an anchor tag in
an embedded mx:htmlText. If I omit either of those things, it doesn't
work. How can I make the hand cursor appear over an ordinary mx:Text?

Here's the style:
.link
{
  color: blue;
  selectable: true;
  useHandCursor: true;
  buttonMode: true;
  mouseChildren: true;
}


This shows the hand cursor:
    <mx:Text styleName="link" condenseWhite="true">
     <mx:htmlText>
      <![CDATA[ <a href="event:http://a.com";>linked text</a> ]]>
     </mx:htmlText>
    </mx:Text>


This does not show the hand cursor:
<mx:Text styleName="link" condenseWhite="true" text="linked text"/>


This does not show the hand cursor:
    <mx:Text styleName="link" condenseWhite="true">
     <mx:htmlText>
      <![CDATA[ linked text ]]>
     </mx:htmlText>
    </mx:Text>