TextEvent.LINK - is there a way to determine mouse over?

Question

I'm using the following code in an app, but what I'd like to know is if there's a way to determine if a user mouses over the link. I would like to display a custom tooltip I've made when the user is mousing over a link, I've been looking for code that will accomplish this, i.e.:
myText.addEventListener(TextEvent.MOUSE_OVER, doAFunction); - but I'm not able to find anything associated with mousing over a text link, aside from using a stylesheet.
On the mousing over of a link, I want to determine if the event == httplink, a custom event I've created. If anyone could shed some light on how to accomplish this, I would be much obidged.
~Chipleh
myText.addEventListener(TextEvent.LINK, httpLinkHandler);
function httpLinkHandler(evt3:TextEvent):void
var linkStr:String = evt3.text;
trace("linkStr = " + linkStr);
var event2:String =  evt3.text.substr(0,8)
if(event2 == "httplink")
  var str:String = linkStr;
  var linkHandlerArray:Array = str.split("&"); 
  var theLink:String = linkHandlerArray[1]; 
   trace("theLink = " + theLink); 
  var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest(theLink);
  navigateToURL(url, "_blank");

Answer 1

There is no direct way in AS3. However you can do this: when you roll over the TextField get the character index using getCharIndexAtPoint() method. Once you have that you can use it to examine if the mouse is over the hyperlink. There are several ways to do this but I think the easiest is to check the text formatting using getTextFormat() method - assuming you have specific format for hyperlinks (like different colour or underscore.)
Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/