I think the API where you get an event back to the Text view with an
arbitrary string of your choosing
is a good level of abstraction. We could make it hairier so that the
developer's API is to pass in a closure
which will get called back, but that seems like overkill.
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:11 PM, P T Withington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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