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Hyperlinks and Text Members
Provided by Ivan Bachev

This is a very helpful tutorial on how to use plain text and use them as hyperlinks. This method can be used for emails, web address, ftp, and more. It also automatically changes the colors and attributes of the text areas with “www”, “http:”, “@” and others.

This tutorial is very useful. Just type in a block of text, and the behavior and any thing with a "http". "@", "www" or what ever will automatically become a hyperlink! Of course you can always edit the behavior to make have other hyperOnic superpowers!

Now I must warn you, Ivan is not much on small talk, but he sure gets down to business! Now this is how it goes:

SHOCKWAVE SAMPLE:

THE CODE


--dedicated to the greatest instigator of the "hypernization" - K A K Y O A N A

--when attached, this behavior makes all the hyperlinks in a text member (http;//, www, @) active, and gives possibility to change their colors.

--note that if your text member, on which you are attaching the behaviour, is quite a big one like this one, it would taka some time in authoring mode for the lingo to process it.

--there is global that after the lingo process the text member, it would not take time again.

--if you once "hypernize your text with this behavior, comment the whole "on mouseenter me" code.
global currentMember, is --globaling the assigned member so to be used in the mousenter nad mousedown event property spriteNum

--
on mouseenter me
if is<>1 then -- this is a global that checks if all the "hypernisation" is allready done
--
member(the mousemember).useHypertextStyles=false
--
currentMember = sprite(1).member --assigning the member
--
repeat with i=currentMember.word.count down to 1 --putting all the words in the member in cycle and repeating through it so to find the words containing "http", "www" and "@"
--
if currentMember.word[i] contains "http://" then
currentMember.word[i].hyperlink="#" --assigning fake value to the whole word containing "http", "www" and "@" so to hperlink it therefore change cursor on hand when point it
currentMember.word[i].foreColor=200 --the colour of the link
currentMember.word[i].fontStyle =[#underline] -- the font style of the hyperlink
end if
--
if currentMember.word[i] contains "www." then
currentMember.word[i].hyperlink="#"
currentMember.word[i].foreColor=200
currentMember.word[i].fontStyle =[#underline]
end if
--
if currentMember.word[i] contains "@" then
currentMember.word[i].hyperlink="#"
currentMember.word[i].foreColor=140
currentMember.word[i].fontStyle =[#underline]
end if
--
end repeat
is=1--asigns a value to the global so not to repeat the hypernization action every time you enter the text.
end if
end
--
on mousedown me
pointClicked = the mouseLoc
wordNum = sprite(1).pointToword(pointClicked) --chechking the hyperlink word number when it is clicked
wordText = currentMember.word[wordNum] --geting the text of the clicked word
--
if wordText contains "@" then
goToNetPage("mailto:" & wordText)
end if
--
if wordText contains "http://" then
goToNetPage(wordText) --performing the gotonetpage command, it will the url which text is the text of the clicked word
end if
--
if wordText contains "www." then
goToNetPage(wordText)
end if
--
end
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--httpwww@
--you can add check for "ftp." for example or other protocols
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on mousewithin me -- changes and restores the cursor when the mouse is over hyperlink
if pointInHyperlink(sprite the currentspritenum, the mouseloc)=1 then
cursor 280
end if
if pointInHyperlink(sprite the currentspritenum, the mouseloc)=0 then cursor -1
end