Mailto

Hello,
I kicked this one around in another forum but it is still an issue for me.
mailto using a URL button dows not work well, because the url button insists upon opening a browser window before firing up the local email tool. Could we please have a mailto button or a url button that can have parameters set so no browser window opens?
The workaround I have played with is using a component with html formatting. It works, but I have had a real problem with the cursor change when hovering on top of the mailto "text". The cursor change does not occur when hovering on top but only when hovering significantly below, which makes it pretty confusing for the end user.
I can't post examples here it seems, so I hope you see what I mean when trying a mailto in a text component.

Xcelsius uses Adobe Flex TextField component in which can handle a subset of HTML.
Here is a more detailed description of what the TextField component supports (which is what you should be able to do in Xcelsius): [http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/flash/text/TextField.html#htmlText]
For the Anchor tag HREF this is what is says:
hrefu2014The URL can be either absolute or relative to the location of the SWF file that is loading the page. An example of an absolute reference to a URL is http://www.adobe.com; an example of a relative reference is /index.html. Absolute URLs must be prefixed with http://; otherwise, Flash treats them as relative URLs.
It may be possible if you have someone develop a custom add-on but otherwise the Anchor tag expects to be jumping to a web page outside of the SWF.
Regards,
Matt

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Please excuse me if a make a few mistakes, I am French ;)
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Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Hang
Date:          10-3-2015 9:52:31
Event ID:      1002
Task Category: (101)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
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Source:        Application Hang
Date:          10-3-2015 9:57:15
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Keywords:      Classic
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