adding buttons/links in a scrolling text box

[ceberr]

I am trying to make an online catalog of an art collection, so I have a scrolling text box, with many names listed, and I want each name to link to a new page with images of the artwork. I was planning to make the box with each name as a separate button, until I ran into what seems like the problem of not being able to have buttons in a text field. PLEASE..any suggestions on how to make this work? I need to figure this out urgently..thanks!

[NTD]

Hi,

This sounds like a good situation for a Flash component. Either use a combobox or a listbox to display your list of names. Each Flash component can use an event handler like "onSelect" when an item in the listbox or combobox is selected. You have a few options on how you want to set it up to load a movie or an html page. You can do it directly from the component when the label is selected, or you can store the label in a variable and use a button to load content based on the selected label.

Example, ..... drag a listbox component onto the stage, give it labels and a change handler in the properties panel. Whatever the name you use for the change handler, code it something like this...

onSelect=function(){
myItem=myListBox.getSelectedItem().label;
if(myItem=="Some Name"){
getURL('http://somesite.com');
}else if(myItem=="Some other name"){
getURL('http://someOtherSite.com');
}
}

hope it helps
NTD