Re: [Laszlo-user] Hyperlink with onclick?

[P T Withington]

Well, David says it's not 'hyper' (it doesn't take you to another  
document), I say it's not 'link' (it's not a link to anything).  It  
creates an area of text that will send an event when clicked.  I  
appreciate this is nifty new functionality, I'm just asking that we  
step back a minute and think about the best UI and how to name and  
document it, so we don't regret it down the road.

The message that started this thread was trying to say (something like):
<a href="javascript:...">...</a>

The other way of saying this in html would be something like:

<span onclick="...">...</span>

Both of those take out the intermediate step that the current  
interface has, where you have to assign an ID to the active text and  
then you have to dispatch from the text click event based on ID to the  
action you want.  I wonder if we want this ID mechanism exposed, or if  
we want a higher-level interface?

On 2008-09-27, at 22:04EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:

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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