Linking text to text?

[mirandac]

Ok, please tell me this can be done.

I'd like to be able to have a link within a text field that will open a new text document in the same text field. Like opening a new page in the same browser window. Is there a way to do this using external files, or urls, anything? If you could either give me some code to work with or point me towards a tutorial I'd be extreamly grateful. I haven't found anything helpful anywhere else, and yet it seems like it would be an easy enough thing to do. Thank you in advance to anyone that can help.

[NTD]

Hi,

It is pretty easy to do with buttons. You can use a LoadVars object to hold the data then populate that object with whatever text file you choose....

myVars = new LoadVars();
myVars.onLoad = function(success) {
	if (!Success) {
		trace("Failed to load");
	} else {
		myTextfield.text = myVars.myText;
	}
}
myVars.load("http://somesite.com/somefile.txt");
//Load a different text file
myButton.onRelease=function(){
myVars.load("http://somesite.com/someOtherFile.txt");	
}

I'm not sure how you would use a text link in an HTML enabled textfield to call the load method. I dont think a getURL method will allow that, but I have not tried it.

hope it helps
NTD

[mirandac]

Thank you so much! I'll try that!