[FakeFrench]

Hey!

Im updating this website which was all done in flash, at which im not great. The client wants all the links underlined. I CAN'T DO IT! Im seriously about to throw this computer out of the window, surely it should be as simple as making text bold or italic?! If anyone can come to my rescue and ill be extremely grateful, not to mention my computer.

I've even tried drawing lines manually!

Thanks,

[Stickman]

Don't think you can use underline in Flash. Its probably to stop people underlining text that isn't linked.

[FakeFrench]

bugger! yeah ive spoke to quite a few people and googled for the cure but no luck so im guessing its not possible. But if anyone has any evidence to the contrary i would really love to know.

[gray]

could do it using a dynamic text field and use something like this

function underlineTextField(theTextField) 
{
  var underlinedText = new TextFormat();
  underlinedText.underline=true;
  theTextField.setTextFormat(underlinedText);
  theTextField.setNewTextFormat(underlinedText);	
}

underlineTextField(yourText);

[Stickman]

Create your underline text in another program, such as Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop, and importing the “object” to be used in Flash.

Might work.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=510427

[FakeFrench]

Originally Posted by gray

could do it using a dynamic text field and use something like this

function underlineTextField(theTextField) 
{
  var underlinedText = new TextFormat();
  underlinedText.underline=true;
  theTextField.setTextFormat(underlinedText);
  theTextField.setNewTextFormat(underlinedText);	
}

underlineTextField(yourText);

thats great thanks! all i need to do now is limit it so it only underlines the links in the dynamic textfield. Am trying to figure it out now but if anyone knows how to do this it would be fantastic! thanks.

[y498]

First things first, are what you are trying to underline in a body of text, or a actual flash button?

If they are in a body of text you can just change that using css and inserting the next as html or xml, if they are buttons, i would recommend making a graphic file that is the underline and placing it in each button file (adjusting the length accordingly) - time consuming, but prolly the fastest way to do this...

Cheers

email me the FLA if you want, ill take a look (michaeltighe@gmail.com)

[meatcake]

so it underlines only links?
make the textFIeld HTML = true;

myTextField.html = true; //or select the textFIeld on the Stage, and press the '<A>' thing, which will make the textField html=true;


now that it's html=true, you can stick all kinds of html into the textFIeld, including <b> <i> <br> <p> <a href>click me </a> and the ubiquitous <u>underlined</u> tags etc.

the links will be the default underlined link-looking blue colored thing.

Now that you know that^
did you know you can make a flash movie of 800wide x 1000 high which contains one single BIG textField covering the whole Stage.
then make a CSS style sheet.
and fill the entire thing up with HTML loaded from somplace else, just like you would in any other page?
hmmm....mikey, he's such a smarty, where did he come from? we don't know.

that's how ya make 'all-flash' sites look like hybrid sites.
it's also how to make a flash site search-spider-able... shhhh....heehee