For lack of a better name, I went with the name that Flex assigned to the
event, their event is called TextEvent.LINK, so I called ours "ontextlink".
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:41 PM, David Temkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> It's confusing, I think, to call these hyperlinks since they are custom
> actions. There are better ways to do conventional hyperlinks.
> "MakeClickableText"? or something.
>
>
> On Sep 27, 2008, at 12:02 PM, P T Withington wrote:
>
> I wonder if you should call it makeHyperlink and onhyperlink instead?
>>
>> On 2008-09-27, at 13:35EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:
>>
>> The use case I'm trying to support is making hyperlinks in your text
>>> fields
>>> that perform custom actions local to the current application.Such as
>>> clicking on something in the debugger window and having it perform
>>> Debug.inspect() of the object.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 1:29 PM, David Temkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>> Wait a sec.... Isn't the <a> tag, with the normal usage of the href
>>>> attribute, supported within text fields -- even in Flash?
>>>> Now, href doesn't work within the <view> tag, and <a> doesn't work
>>>> anywhere
>>>> but inside of <text>, but that's another story.
>>>>
>>>> Not that what you've done isn't useful -- but I don't think it's needed
>>>> in
>>>> the normal case (click to link to another page).
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 27, 2008, at 6:26 AM, Henry Minsky wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> The function to respond to a hyperlink is currently platform-dependent,
>>>> although just a few days ago
>>>> I added a cross-platform mechanism to the LFC. That is available only if
>>>> you run a nightly build at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> If you look at the implementation, the actual mechanism for Flash 8
>>>> applications is to use the syntax <a href="asfunction:funcname,arg">,
>>>> whereas for DHTML is it to use "javascript:somescript" for target.
>>>>
>>>> The new API is to call LzText.makeTextLink, which returns a string of
>>>> the
>>>> form "<a href=...>displayed value</a>" which you can append to the
>>>> content
>>>> of your LzText field. When clicked, it sends a "ontextlink" event back
>>>> to
>>>> the LzText object, with the value you choose.
>>>>
>>>> /**
>>>> * Return a string which can be used to insert a hyperlink in a text
>>>> field.
>>>> * @param String str: The text displayed in the hyperlink.
>>>> * @param String value: The value returned when the link is clicked.
>>>> * @access public
>>>> The text returned by makeTextLink can be appended to the text of a
>>>> text field. It will make an HTML-style anchor, and will have a
>>>> displayed representation of the string STR. When clicked, the link will
>>>> send an ontextlink event to the text view, with a value of VALUE.
>>>> */
>>>> public function makeTextLink(str, value) {
>>>> return this.sprite.makeTextLink(str,value);
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:29 PM, cyril alias lyric <
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> how to define an hyperlink that throws an
>>>>> onclick-event?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to have the same behaviour as for buttons:
>>>>> <button onclick="doSomething();" />
>>>>>
>>>>> If possible, what is the correct syntax.
>>>>> I tried
>>>>> <a href="" onclick="doSomething();">Link</a>
>>>>> without success.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> lyric
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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