Actionscript problem in Dynamic TextField

Question

Is possible to make a word as button within the dynamic textField in flash as3?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 31 '11 at 14:13

Actually contrary to the other answers for this question, you can(kind of). By using an image tag in a string value for a Textfield object's htmlText property you can use a display object in the library as its source. Then you can use the Textfield object's getImageReference() method to get the image tag which has the display object from the library as its source. Heres an example:

package 
{
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;

    public class Main extends Sprite 
    {
        public function Main():void 
        {
            if (stage) init();
            else addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);

        }// end function

        private function init(e:Event = null):void 
        {
            removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);

            var textField:TextField = new TextField()
            textField.width = 125;
            textField.height = 50;
            textField.htmlText = "This is a button <img id='myButton' src='MyButton'/> ";
            addChild(textField);

            var myButton:Sprite = textField.getImageReference("myButton") as Sprite;
            myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMyButtonClick);

        }// end function

        private function onMyButtonClick(e:MouseEvent):void
        {
            trace("CLICKED!!!");

        }// end function

    }// end class

}// end package

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nicely done. html is always a little wonky but +1 for it working — locrizak, May 31 '11 at 14:16
@locrizak i agree, thats why I said "you can(kind of)". I do think that a button in a textfield can be achieved using the Text Layout Framework, but then again I'm not sure since I don't know that much about it. — Taurayi, May 31 '11 at 14:22
@Taurayi Yeah I hear ya.. Haven't done flash in over a year (actionscript that is) but still remember most of it. — locrizak, May 31 '11 at 14:23
@Taurayi: If I found, I will update here. Thanks for your kind response. — Benny, Jun 02 '11 at 13:08

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 31 '11 at 12:54

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there's no addChild method in TextField. But you may cheat and place button over TextField (i.e. add it to container of a TextField).

answered May 31 '11 at 12:54

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 31 '11 at 12:55

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Short answer, no. You'd need to make a wrapper class/MovieClip containing both the button and text field.

answered May 31 '11 at 12:55

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I need a particular word as a button. – Benny Jun 02 '11 at 13:10
on a SimpleButton/UIButton (sorry forgot the class)? – locrizak Jun 02 '11 at 13:20
UIButton!!! i don't know about that... I wants to assign word as button dynamically. – Benny Jun 02 '11 at 14:19

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '11 at 07:58

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Flash_10.0/help.html?content=00000552.html

http://circlecube.com/2008/12/asfunction-texteventlink-tutorial-for-as3-flash-html-link-to-call-actionscript-function-tutorial/

This will helps u.

Actionscript problem in Dynamic TextField

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