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Hyperlink in text cast member

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Pattom

Technical User
Aug 17, 2007
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I am reading an external text file and putting some of the text into a text cast member. I would like to use html formating and have hyperlinks show - with a mouseover hand, etc. - and automatically launch a browser from my projector (the executable will be distributed on a DVD-ROM). The hyperlink formating does not show; nor do I know how to set up my project so that it detects the default browser on the user's computer. I would appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks.
 
Set [tt]useHypertextStyles[/tt] to [tt]TRUE[/tt]

You don't need to specify the default browser. Just place this MovieScript:
Code:
on hyperlinkClicked(me, data, range)
  if offset("[URL unfurl="true"]http://",[/URL] data) then
    gotoNetPage(data)
  end if
end hyperlinkClicked

Kenneth Kawamoto
 
Thank you. I attached the above behavior to the sprite of my text cast member.

What I am trying to do is to pull up, based on choices I click on a menu, different html files residing on my hard drive into my text cast member. I use the command member("whatever").filename=<filename>

This is, apparently, not working because the hyperlinkclicked handler is not being called. Please tell me what I am doing wrong. How can I get my links to work when I pull in external linked html files into a text cast member?
 
Yes, please. I would appreciate that. Again, I am attaching the behavior to the sprite of the text cast member, but when I click on the sprite nothing happens. Thanks.
 
Create a new movie in 320 x 240. Then put this in the frame 1:
Code:
on exitFrame(me)
  _movie.go(_movie.frame)
end exitFrame
Create a HTML file called "external.htm" and place next to the DIR file:
Code:
<html>
<head></head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
	Thank you. I attached the above <a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.google.com/">behavior</a>[/URL] to the sprite of my text cast member. 
</body>
</html>
Create a Movie Script, then run the movie:
Code:
on prepareMovie()
  mem = new(#text)
  mem.fileName = _movie.path & "external.htm"
  mem.name = "externalHTML"
  mem.width = 300
end prepareMovie

on startMovie()
  channel(1).makeScriptedSprite(member("externalHTML", "UI"), point(10, 10))
end startMovie

on stopMovie()
  channel(1).removeScriptedSprite()
  member("externalHTML").erase()
end stopMovie

on hyperlinkClicked(me, data, range)
  if offset("[URL unfurl="true"]http://",[/URL] data) then
    gotoNetPage(data)
  end if
end hyperlinkClicked

Kenneth Kawamoto
 
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