Flash Site Design - Link:hover on text field using CSS?

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Link:hover on text field using CSS?

paulpsd7

2005-06-17, 11:20 pm

I am putting together a lot of content into a Flash presentation. A good chunk
of this content will be scrolling columns of text containing a few inline
links. The inline links will contain actionscript commands to navigate around
the Flash presentation, rather than <a href> type links to open a new URL.

First of all, is it even possible to include actionscript commands attached to
small segments of text in a text field? The LINK field in the Property
Inspector seems to only want a URL, rather than actionscript. If not, how would
I achieve this?

Second, assuming I can have the links in my text columns triggering
actionscript, is it possible to apply CSS styles to get a hover behavior to
work? In looking through the online help files, I see that Flash supports a
limited range of CSS properties. I didn't see hover among them. Does anyone
have any experience doing this?

Laiverd.COM

2005-06-18, 7:26 am

1. Check asfunction in the as dictionary
2. Not really possible. Dived into this at one point, but the only way to achieve something like a hover effect over a part of
dynamic text is to dynamically search and replace the text-to-have-hover with a movieclip to which one applies the hover effect. Not
that this can only be achieved voor Flash Player 7 which allow you to load linked movieclip into a textfield. An example (never
quite completely finished): http://home.hccnet.nl/john.mulder/f...eld_tooltip.zip

John

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merlinvicki

2005-06-18, 7:18 pm

Hi Paul,
Hover properties are certainly possible in Flash MX04.
check out this sample:
http://www.merlinvicki.com/samples/textenhancements.zip
just add this in the .CSS file
a:hover
{
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-style: bold;
color: #3366CC;
display: inline;
}

Laiverd.COM

2005-06-18, 7:18 pm

Definitely true ;-) What I meant in my post is that (afaik) it is not possible to trigger an event using hover, such as showing a
tooltip. In other words afaik it is not possible to trigger asfunction from a hover.

John

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