Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField
I have textfield link detection in this class - https://code.google.com/p/kurstcode/source/browse/trunk/libs/com/kurst/utils/TextFieldUtils.as using it for link roll-over / roll-out events. And I think it could be extended to get the link's start/end position. Have a look at the 'detectMouseOver' function - could be a good starting point... - karim On 30 Aug 2010, at 19:47, Andrew Murphy wrote: Hello. :) Thank you, but I think that will give me the link's text from within the htmlText property of the TextField. What I need are the beginning and ending indexes of the link within the text property of the TextField. That is, after the HTML has been rendered into the displayed text. I've thought of finding the index of the TextEvent's text property (ie: block1) within the htmlText property of the TextField and using that to determine the indexes, but those indexes would be relative to the TextField's htmlText property, rather than it's text property. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Mynarcik Sent: August 30, 2010 14:35 pm To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField You will have to cull out what you want: **Psuedo Code** var stuff:String = [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a]; stuff.substr(stuff.indexOf([a href=event:block1]), stuff.indexOf([/a])); Nathan Mynarcik nat...@mynarcik.com 254.749.2525 www.mynarcik.com On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Andrew Murphy amur...@delvinia.com wrote: Hi. :) Does anyone know of a way to get the beginning and ending index of a link within a TextField? I want the indexes of the beginning and ending of the text that makes up the link. For example if I pass the following HTML text into the TextField: [p]Lorem ipsum [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a] amet.[/p] What I want is the beginning and ending indexes of the dolor sit text when the user clicks on it. The TextEvent.LINK event passes out the value of the href within the link text (ie: block1), which isn't terribly useful in this case. ( ps: I used square brackets in the example HTML text rather than angle brackets to try avoiding issues with the list's mailer, which doesn't like HTML code in emails. ) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField
Good morning.
I came up with a solution, it's not elegant but it works:
1) Break up the HTML into an array of chunks of code based on where the
links occour. So this:
[p]Lorem ipsum [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a] amet.[/p]
Gets turned into this:
blocks[0] = [p]Lorem ipsum
blocks[0] = [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a]
blocks[0] = amet.[/p]
2) Go through that array of chunks, concatenating each chunk with the chunks
before it and plugging the results into the TextField. Force it to render
(validateNow();) each time and use the previous and current length of the
text property to determine the beginning and ending indices of each chunk.
3) For any chunks containing a link, save the link's URL and indices into an
array. ie:
link_props[0] = {name:block1, begin:12, end:21}
4) When a link is clicked use the text property of the TextEvent.LINK
event to get at the indices for that link in the array.
Thank you for helping. :)
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RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField
Thank you, but I came up with a solution. :) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karim Beyrouti Sent: August 31, 2010 05:37 am To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField I have textfield link detection in this class - https://code.google.com/p/kurstcode/source/browse/trunk/libs/com/kurst/utils /TextFieldUtils.as using it for link roll-over / roll-out events. And I think it could be extended to get the link's start/end position. Have a look at the 'detectMouseOver' function - could be a good starting point... - karim On 30 Aug 2010, at 19:47, Andrew Murphy wrote: Hello. :) Thank you, but I think that will give me the link's text from within the htmlText property of the TextField. What I need are the beginning and ending indexes of the link within the text property of the TextField. That is, after the HTML has been rendered into the displayed text. I've thought of finding the index of the TextEvent's text property (ie: block1) within the htmlText property of the TextField and using that to determine the indexes, but those indexes would be relative to the TextField's htmlText property, rather than it's text property. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Mynarcik Sent: August 30, 2010 14:35 pm To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField You will have to cull out what you want: **Psuedo Code** var stuff:String = [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a]; stuff.substr(stuff.indexOf([a href=event:block1]), stuff.indexOf([/a])); Nathan Mynarcik nat...@mynarcik.com 254.749.2525 www.mynarcik.com On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Andrew Murphy amur...@delvinia.com wrote: Hi. :) Does anyone know of a way to get the beginning and ending index of a link within a TextField? I want the indexes of the beginning and ending of the text that makes up the link. For example if I pass the following HTML text into the TextField: [p]Lorem ipsum [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a] amet.[/p] What I want is the beginning and ending indexes of the dolor sit text when the user clicks on it. The TextEvent.LINK event passes out the value of the href within the link text (ie: block1), which isn't terribly useful in this case. ( ps: I used square brackets in the example HTML text rather than angle brackets to try avoiding issues with the list's mailer, which doesn't like HTML code in emails. ) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField
so whats your solution? On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Andrew Murphy amur...@delvinia.com wrote: Thank you, but I came up with a solution. :) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karim Beyrouti Sent: August 31, 2010 05:37 am To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField I have textfield link detection in this class - https://code.google.com/p/kurstcode/source/browse/trunk/libs/com/kurst/utils /TextFieldUtils.as using it for link roll-over / roll-out events. And I think it could be extended to get the link's start/end position. Have a look at the 'detectMouseOver' function - could be a good starting point... - karim On 30 Aug 2010, at 19:47, Andrew Murphy wrote: Hello. :) Thank you, but I think that will give me the link's text from within the htmlText property of the TextField. What I need are the beginning and ending indexes of the link within the text property of the TextField. That is, after the HTML has been rendered into the displayed text. I've thought of finding the index of the TextEvent's text property (ie: block1) within the htmlText property of the TextField and using that to determine the indexes, but those indexes would be relative to the TextField's htmlText property, rather than it's text property. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Mynarcik Sent: August 30, 2010 14:35 pm To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField You will have to cull out what you want: **Psuedo Code** var stuff:String = [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a]; stuff.substr(stuff.indexOf([a href=event:block1]), stuff.indexOf([/a])); Nathan Mynarcik nat...@mynarcik.com 254.749.2525 www.mynarcik.com On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Andrew Murphy amur...@delvinia.com wrote: Hi. :) Does anyone know of a way to get the beginning and ending index of a link within a TextField? I want the indexes of the beginning and ending of the text that makes up the link. For example if I pass the following HTML text into the TextField: [p]Lorem ipsum [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a] amet.[/p] What I want is the beginning and ending indexes of the dolor sit text when the user clicks on it. The TextEvent.LINK event passes out the value of the href within the link text (ie: block1), which isn't terribly useful in this case. ( ps: I used square brackets in the example HTML text rather than angle brackets to try avoiding issues with the list's mailer, which doesn't like HTML code in emails. ) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Ktu; The information contained in this message may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are NOT the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this message. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField
I already posted my solution to this list. :) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Ktu Sent: August 31, 2010 10:15 am To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField so whats your solution? On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Andrew Murphy amur...@delvinia.com wrote: Thank you, but I came up with a solution. :) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karim Beyrouti Sent: August 31, 2010 05:37 am To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField I have textfield link detection in this class - https://code.google.com/p/kurstcode/source/browse/trunk/libs/com/kurst/utils /TextFieldUtils.as using it for link roll-over / roll-out events. And I think it could be extended to get the link's start/end position. Have a look at the 'detectMouseOver' function - could be a good starting point... - karim On 30 Aug 2010, at 19:47, Andrew Murphy wrote: Hello. :) Thank you, but I think that will give me the link's text from within the htmlText property of the TextField. What I need are the beginning and ending indexes of the link within the text property of the TextField. That is, after the HTML has been rendered into the displayed text. I've thought of finding the index of the TextEvent's text property (ie: block1) within the htmlText property of the TextField and using that to determine the indexes, but those indexes would be relative to the TextField's htmlText property, rather than it's text property. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Mynarcik Sent: August 30, 2010 14:35 pm To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField You will have to cull out what you want: **Psuedo Code** var stuff:String = [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a]; stuff.substr(stuff.indexOf([a href=event:block1]), stuff.indexOf([/a])); Nathan Mynarcik nat...@mynarcik.com 254.749.2525 www.mynarcik.com On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Andrew Murphy amur...@delvinia.com wrote: Hi. :) Does anyone know of a way to get the beginning and ending index of a link within a TextField? I want the indexes of the beginning and ending of the text that makes up the link. For example if I pass the following HTML text into the TextField: [p]Lorem ipsum [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a] amet.[/p] What I want is the beginning and ending indexes of the dolor sit text when the user clicks on it. The TextEvent.LINK event passes out the value of the href within the link text (ie: block1), which isn't terribly useful in this case. ( ps: I used square brackets in the example HTML text rather than angle brackets to try avoiding issues with the list's mailer, which doesn't like HTML code in emails. ) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo
Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField
Andrew Murphy skriver: Hi. :) Does anyone know of a way to get the beginning and ending index of a link within a TextField? I want the indexes of the beginning and ending of the text that makes up the link. For example if I pass the following HTML text into the TextField: [p]Lorem ipsum [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a] amet.[/p] What I want is the beginning and ending indexes of the dolor sit text when the user clicks on it. The TextEvent.LINK event passes out the value of the href within the link text (ie: block1), which isn't terribly useful in this case. Are you sure that you need the positions? The flash.text.engine package has this nifty thing called mirror regions, perhaps they are useful here? Or perhaps you just need multiple content elements? It is hard to help when you don't know the purpose. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField
This might give you some ideas on accomplishing what you needs to do -use split().join(): http://troyworks.com/blog/2008/03/14/flash-textfield-actionscript-hyperlink-in-as30/ _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T 952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report Global Agency of the Year PR News Agency of the Year -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Murphy Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:47 PM To: 'Flash Coders List' Subject: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField Hi. :) Does anyone know of a way to get the beginning and ending index of a link within a TextField? I want the indexes of the beginning and ending of the text that makes up the link. For example if I pass the following HTML text into the TextField: [p]Lorem ipsum [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a] amet.[/p] What I want is the beginning and ending indexes of the dolor sit text when the user clicks on it. The TextEvent.LINK event passes out the value of the href within the link text (ie: block1), which isn't terribly useful in this case. ( ps: I used square brackets in the example HTML text rather than angle brackets to try avoiding issues with the list's mailer, which doesn't like HTML code in emails. ) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField
You will have to cull out what you want: **Psuedo Code** var stuff:String = [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a]; stuff.substr(stuff.indexOf([a href=event:block1]), stuff.indexOf([/a])); Nathan Mynarcik nat...@mynarcik.com 254.749.2525 www.mynarcik.com On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Andrew Murphy amur...@delvinia.com wrote: Hi. :) Does anyone know of a way to get the beginning and ending index of a link within a TextField? I want the indexes of the beginning and ending of the text that makes up the link. For example if I pass the following HTML text into the TextField: [p]Lorem ipsum [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a] amet.[/p] What I want is the beginning and ending indexes of the dolor sit text when the user clicks on it. The TextEvent.LINK event passes out the value of the href within the link text (ie: block1), which isn't terribly useful in this case. ( ps: I used square brackets in the example HTML text rather than angle brackets to try avoiding issues with the list's mailer, which doesn't like HTML code in emails. ) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField
Hello. :) Thank you, but this script doesn't appear to return the beginning and ending indexes of the link. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW) Sent: August 30, 2010 14:23 pm To: Flash Coders List Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField This might give you some ideas on accomplishing what you needs to do -use split().join(): http://troyworks.com/blog/2008/03/14/flash-textfield-actionscript-hyperlink- in-as30/ _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T 952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report Global Agency of the Year PR News Agency of the Year -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Murphy Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:47 PM To: 'Flash Coders List' Subject: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField Hi. :) Does anyone know of a way to get the beginning and ending index of a link within a TextField? I want the indexes of the beginning and ending of the text that makes up the link. For example if I pass the following HTML text into the TextField: [p]Lorem ipsum [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a] amet.[/p] What I want is the beginning and ending indexes of the dolor sit text when the user clicks on it. The TextEvent.LINK event passes out the value of the href within the link text (ie: block1), which isn't terribly useful in this case. ( ps: I used square brackets in the example HTML text rather than angle brackets to try avoiding issues with the list's mailer, which doesn't like HTML code in emails. ) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField
Hi. :) Mirror regions sound like they might do the job, but I'm limited to working with the v9 plug-in. (Sorry.. I should have mentioned that in my first email.) I'm not certain what you mean by using multiple content elements. The effect I'm looking for is that when the user clicks on a link the Flash draws a highlight around the link's text and passes the beginning and ending indexes of that text to another function. I really do need the beginning and ending indexes. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Andersson Sent: August 30, 2010 14:15 pm To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField Andrew Murphy skriver: Hi. :) Does anyone know of a way to get the beginning and ending index of a link within a TextField? I want the indexes of the beginning and ending of the text that makes up the link. For example if I pass the following HTML text into the TextField: [p]Lorem ipsum [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a] amet.[/p] What I want is the beginning and ending indexes of the dolor sit text when the user clicks on it. The TextEvent.LINK event passes out the value of the href within the link text (ie: block1), which isn't terribly useful in this case. Are you sure that you need the positions? The flash.text.engine package has this nifty thing called mirror regions, perhaps they are useful here? Or perhaps you just need multiple content elements? It is hard to help when you don't know the purpose. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField
Hello. :) Thank you, but I think that will give me the link's text from within the htmlText property of the TextField. What I need are the beginning and ending indexes of the link within the text property of the TextField. That is, after the HTML has been rendered into the displayed text. I've thought of finding the index of the TextEvent's text property (ie: block1) within the htmlText property of the TextField and using that to determine the indexes, but those indexes would be relative to the TextField's htmlText property, rather than it's text property. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Mynarcik Sent: August 30, 2010 14:35 pm To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField You will have to cull out what you want: **Psuedo Code** var stuff:String = [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a]; stuff.substr(stuff.indexOf([a href=event:block1]), stuff.indexOf([/a])); Nathan Mynarcik nat...@mynarcik.com 254.749.2525 www.mynarcik.com On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Andrew Murphy amur...@delvinia.com wrote: Hi. :) Does anyone know of a way to get the beginning and ending index of a link within a TextField? I want the indexes of the beginning and ending of the text that makes up the link. For example if I pass the following HTML text into the TextField: [p]Lorem ipsum [a href=event:block1]dolor sit[/a] amet.[/p] What I want is the beginning and ending indexes of the dolor sit text when the user clicks on it. The TextEvent.LINK event passes out the value of the href within the link text (ie: block1), which isn't terribly useful in this case. ( ps: I used square brackets in the example HTML text rather than angle brackets to try avoiding issues with the list's mailer, which doesn't like HTML code in emails. ) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
