A glossary in Flash

Question

Hello,
I am trying to make a glossary in flash. The page will look
as follows:
on top I have the alphabet
on the left I have a scrolling dynamic textfield with
hundreds of
technical words in alphabetical order.
on the right a panel for the explanation.
by hovering on the technical word the explanation should
appear on the right
Questions:
1. Is there a tutorial for something like that ?
2. Is there a way to "link" inside the text (like an anchor
in HTML) ?
What I would like is, when clicked on a letter of the
alphabet (on
top), the left panel will scroll immediately to that letter.
Cheers
Henri

Answer 1

Downloaded the Demo of Master Collection CS 5.5 which now has round tripping between Catalyst and Flash Builder. Looks like Catalyst still does not let me set text items based on selections in a datalist. Flash Builder 4.5 from CS 5.5 suite, however allows me to edit the project and make the change to the code to allow the datalist to change text.
In the sequence I can edit the Richtext UIComponent to:
s:SetAction property="text" value="{list1.selectedItem}"
However now I've tried to insert the compiled project into Captivate 5. No go. The Final SWF generated from Captivate goes wonky when I insert the SWF Animation from Flex Builder (even if I use Animation Slide). I copied all the files from the Generated Flex Builder App and externalized all Animations in
Captivate to see if that would solve the problem but still no go.
Maybe I need to create a wrapper for Flex Builder SWF's ......