Comments on: Creating a LinkElement in a Spark RichEditableText control in Flex 4

By: Ayme

Ayme — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:41:15 +0000

Thanks Irongamer, very fine !

By: Andrtew

Andrtew — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:26:50 +0000

Oh My God

What with this blog!

Ok. My 2. point is that you have to have textFlow tags with emply params….

By: Andrtew

Andrtew — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:22:57 +0000

2. There is
<s:textFlow>
<s:TextFlow>
<s:p><s:a href=”http://tut.ua” target=”_blank” ></s:a></s:p>
</s:TextFlow>
</s:textFlow>

By: Andrtew

Andrtew — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:20:19 +0000

This is how I do dynamic links :
protected function button1_clickHandler(e:MouseEvent):void
{
var textFlow : TextFlow = textArea.textFlow;
var p:ParagraphElement = new ParagraphElement();
var span:SpanElement = new SpanElement();
span.text = “>Test Message”;

var link : LinkElement = new LinkElement();
link.addEventListener( FlowElementMouseEvent.CLICK, onLinkClick );
var linkSpan : SpanElement = new SpanElement();
linkSpan.text = “dynamicLink”;
link.addChild( linkSpan );

p.addChild( link );
p.addChild( span );
textFlow.addChild( p );
}

But it works when:
1. editable=”false” for text control(RET or TextArea)
2. There is

I cant bypass 2. position – it is ugly, so if you know how to do this – wright please…

Thx.
Andrew.

By: Irongamer

Irongamer — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:46:20 +0000

The way you apply a link has changed. Here is what worked for me.

private function createLink(link:String=”http://www.google.com”,title:String=null):void
{
var editManager:IEditManager = editor.textFlow.interactionManager as IEditManager;
editManager.applyLink(link, title);
}

By: sydd

sydd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:43:51 +0000

I have the same question as Lance:
How can i add a link programatically?
Lance’s solution does not work in beta 2, cause getEditManager() is a private function.
(Why dont you make funcitons like this protected??)

By: Lance

Lance — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:47:26 +0000

public static function applyLink(editor:RichEditableText, link:String, title:String = null):void
{
// call first
var editManager:EditManager = editor.mx_internal::getEditManager() as EditManager;

editManager.applyLink(link, title);

// clean up
editor.mx_internal::releaseEditManager(editManager);
}

You could do it easier, but this allows you use the advanced features of the RichEditableText’s EditManager. I had to change those two mx_internal methods from “private” to “mx_internal”, so I didn’t have to copy-paste.

Best,
Lance

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:12:03 +0000

This is great!

Any ideas how to add a LinkElement dynamically, like in the Text Editor? Are we going to have to just add in the Element to the TextFlow at the selected index, or is it a bit more complicated?

Best,
Lance

By: Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:02:53 +0000

valery,

I’ve never seen that. Which build of the Flex 4 SDK are you using?

Peter

By: valery

valery — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:12:07 +0000

Hello Peter, i’m trying to install the last and earlier sdk nightly build for flash builder but when i run my project (build with latest stable sdk version), flex give me an error : can’t find the IVIsualElement class. But, this class is steal in the sdk folder !!
I was really enjoy to use the textFlow but i’m little confused now.. do you have any idea ?

Thanks for your help and your amazing blog.
(sorry for my english)