Hotlinking text

[face2six]

What is the method for hot linking certain text in a dynamic text box that is populated by an external text file.

I tried checking HTML in the text boxes' text option and just adding the link in the external file but that does not seem to work.

can it be done. It would seem to be a pretty obvious thing but I can not find out how to do it.

thanks

[Jesse]

You can use simple HTML links to go to a new URL and stuff and it should work fine. If you want to do something more complicated take alook at the Invoking Actions From Text Fields tutorial here.

[face2six]

yup Im quite familiar with that tut...love the one press/ two press thing :)

I think I may have figured out my problem. It seems when you use the embed font option in a dynamic text box that is populated by an external source it wreaks all kinds of havoc on <a> tags. e.g. whole words are missing or the text doesnt even show up. Doesnt seem to have probs with formatting tags like <b>, <br> or <i> .

Correct me if I am wrong but I assume this is because embeds fonts rasterises the text. So if you want to use hot links in your text you cant use embed font option.

The only down side to this is now I cant use my nifty _alpha easing of clip that holds the text box.

I can get around this by putting a masking clip into a layer over the layer holding the text and decrementing the alpha in a loop but it seems a not so elegant solution :(