Launch a PDF from htmlText

Hi - I need to launch a PDF in a blank window - or at least
give the user the choice to "download" it from my app to their
desktop.
The attached code shows how I got it to work using getURL and
an onRelease command...but I need to get the same to work from a
text field. On rolling over the text appears in the field as shown.
When I rollover the btn I get the hand cursor - not so with
the text link. When I rollover the text I get an "I" beam...if that
matters.
The attached code is on the same frame, same layer - so I
can't imagine that the path to the pdf would be different. I
couldn't use getURL on the text so I tried what you see below.
How can I do this?
TIA your help.
JL

kglad - Thanks for that. I meant RollOut. That's funny. In
one of these little modules I've made - I HAD to use onRollOut. All
I did was repeat the onRollover code under onRollOut - otherwise
the text would disappear when the user left the hit zone of the
button. I did as you suggest and the text stays put on the roll
out. I'll have to dig that old file up to see what I did that was
different.
AND - as far as that link to a PDF - the reason I was getting
the "I" beam over the links in the text had nothing to do with the
code in the htmlText. I had a "vagrant" textField overlaying the
one I was trying to interact with. It was blocking me from
clicking. So the code in the htmlText above WILL work and DOES work
afterall.
Thanks for your help.
JL

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