Actionscript in text file?

I've imported a text file into a nice scrollin text field.
I can put in regular HTML links no problem.
But now the question is: Is it possible to execute
actionscript from that file as well?
What I need to do is if someone clicks a word in the file
(like a regular link) I want to load a new swf movie into, for
instance, level 10

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I'm not up on AS3 yet, but many things are still similar. You
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well sorry there fanmap - but I don't think you're going to
be able to get this to work. here's why: the link points to a php
file - which gathers dynamic info from a DB - the return from the
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well sorry there fanmap - but I don't think you're going to
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correct this if i'm off) there's no way to 'change' the output of
the php call, therefore you will not be able to read the return
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the php return to the html document - and the output is not
compatible with the textField class.

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> on (release) {
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