Flash dynamic text links

I've created a dynamic (scrolling) text field in Flash MX
2004 Pro. The text contains links to webpages. The links work in
the published Flash SWF but not when I place the SWF in Director.
Please help?
Lars

You need to catch the getURL() message in Director and have
it open your
browser to the link. Try attaching the following as a
behavior to the
Flash sprite:
on getURL me, aLink
gotoNetPage(aLink)
-- better to use Buddy API:
-- OK = baOpenURL(aLink)
end

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floateronline wrote:
> Hey, I am relatively new around here although I've been
a member for years. I
> am just now starting to utilize my account. I do have a
question in regards to
> embedding fonts in Flash 8. I have read up on this
numerous places and haven't
> been able to find a solution that works for me, whether
this my user error or
> not is still TBD.
>
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text fields. I need
> to be using a handwritting font for these text fields.
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> handwritten font they are not displaying in my dynamic
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> displaying in my static text fields that am I also using
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> controlling my dynamic text fields w/ an external
stylesheet. I believe I must
> do something "additional" for these dynamic text fields
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jon
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Open the help files and select the ActionScript 3.0 drop
down. Then from that list Expand the Actionscript 3.0 language
reference and the All Classes section. Next scroll down to the "T"
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now! -- will require an event. So again it is something about
events. So I'll go back to the textfield class and see what kind of
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classes than their methods, properties, and events.
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find the String class if you didn't know that techy word, but by
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get there.
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The length property might tell you when a String is too long.
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Finally adding an ellipsis at the end might be hard to figure
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together. Always read the entry to the end. There you will see a
link for "See Also Concatenating Strings." That will show you that
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