Using links in flash interactions

I am using the Flash Interaction "Process Tabs" that came with 8.0 to explain a series of online tools. I would like to include a link to each tool in the content of each tab. I cannot seem to input anything but text. Is there a way to do this?

Hi,
No. We do not have a way to achieve this as of now.
Regards,
Mukul

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"Erik **AdobeCommunityExpert**"
<[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
>I hesitate to post this as it might be a pain, as you
suggest, and others
>may have a better suggestion...
> But I think you'll have to setup a detection of the
keypresses in Flash
> and send those as Events to Authorware. When Authorware
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> appropriate one (I generally us F1 keys or shift-number
keys !@#$%^).
> Erik
>
> Jensen wrote:
>> Hi all and happy new year!
>>
>> I am using AW7.02, Windows XP, Flash v8 (loaded
using ActiveX).
>>
>> I have the following setup:
>> In a pageturner made in AW I have an interaction
icon placed inside a
>> Framework. On the interaction icon I have several
perpetual buttons, one
>> in particular to flip to the next page (next icon on
framework). This
>> button interaction has RightArrow and PageDown keys
assigned to it. So,
>> while running, if I hit right arrow or page down I
will flip to next
>> page. This works fine.
>> I also load and display Flash on the pages using
ActiveX (Shockwave Flash
>> Object). The Flash are animations, so the user can
click on Flash
>> controllers to play/pause etc.
>>
>> The problem:
>> So, user can flip to next page with keyboard just
fine, as long as the
>> user does not hit anything in the Flash ActiveX
first. So for example, if
>> the user pauses the movie clicking the pause button
in the Flash ActiveX
>> and then hit the right arrow key, then nothing
happens. (I want page to
>> be turned). The user must first hit somewhere
outside the Flash ActiveX
>> in the AW window before the keyboard triggers the
buttons again.
>>
>> Attempts:
>> All my attempts have only been in author mode and
not packaged mode.
>> I've done some attempts sending event from Flash
after button in Flash
>> has been pressed. This is picked up by AW (confirmed
with trace) and then
>> I've tried to:
>> - set focus to interaction icon that holds the
button using
>> SetKeyboardFocus(InteractionIconID). Did not work.
>> - set window focus using
baActivateWindow(baWinHandle) (from Buddy API).
>> Did not work, and as far as I could see the active
window remained the
>> same (= AW window) during Flash interaction, so
probably not so strange
>> it didn't work.
>>
>> So, does anyone have any idea on how I can fix the
focus problem? The
>> only workaround that I am left with right now is to
set up the same
>> keyboard interaction in the Flash as in the AW and
send this info back to
>> AW as events. This is not ideal due to update issues
and unclear
>> codestructure.
>>
>> /Jensen/
>
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>
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