It’s been a while since I posted anything useful (not sure if I ever have) but anyway here’s a tip for the Haxe \/ OpenFL coders out there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes you need to have responsive, flowing text in your application and still use it to trigger functions, just like a webpage. So here is the solution. This works with a regular OpenFL text field, or a Label in FeathersUI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
var walkThruText = new TextField(); \/\/or new Label();\nwalkThruText.htmlText = 'Want a walkthrough on how to use the tool?<br \/><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"event:tutorialClick\">Watch this short tutorial<\/a><\/font> to become an expert.';\n\nwalkThruText.addEventListener(TextEvent.LINK, (linkEvent:TextEvent)->{\n\tswitch (linkEvent.text){\n\t\tcase \"tutorialClick\":\n\t\t\ttrace(\"You clicked the link!\");\n\t}\n});<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nSo the secret is to add an event with a name as the href on the <a> tag, then listen for the TextEvent when it gets clicked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bonus tip: text formatting within a TextField can be applied by either using the “setTextFormat” method on a text field and providing a start\/end range, or you can use various html tags as listed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nI hope this helps someone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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