Is it possible to use HTML anchors in actionscript scrolling?

[bebeard]

good day all,

i'm trying to create a actionscript scrolling text box with up / down buttons but also have html anchors to "go to answer" and "go to top"... Is this possible?

Any ideas and suggestions are always appreciated!

Thanks,

Brook

[blanius]

No anchors are not supported in Flash HTML

You can however keep track of the scroll position and use that with a bit of trial and error

[bebeard]

thanks for the post... I will try another route..

[bebeard]

Are there any alternatives to using anchors in Flash?

Brook

[Chris_Seahorn]

Are there any alternatives to using anchors in Flash?

Brook

http://sandbox.blogdns.com/examples/...nchors_KM.html

Creative thinking and a bit of visual trickery. This example uses maxscroll to manipulate a single massive html textfield as if it were using anchors. This is just one of many ways to do this and the abilty has been around since Flash5 and just one of many ways to accomplish what you want using string functions. Once you work out what lines are your section headings in the huge html textfield (which would change depending on the width of the field itself)...it's a breeze to make it look and act just like it's html counterpart would in a page.

Notice the scrollbar is sent to the correct position with each anchor. This HAS to use a scripted scrollbar and would not work if I enabled the scrollbar from the GUI. I could attach sounds to each section link....use buttons instead of text for the links or just about any other thing you could imagine.

Here is the kicker. Always look for the simplest solution for any problem and then expand upon a working routine. Other than the few lines of code to create the scrollbar in this one....the actual code to simulate the anchors is only one line of script.

I'm wrapping it up now for my download section. Now that my last portal is in place I'm adding all my downloads to my download module to continue supporting the platform.

[wozbk]

http://sandbox.blogdns.com/examples/...nchors_KM.html

Creative thinking and a bit of visual trickery. This example uses maxscroll to manipulate a single massive html textfield as if it were using anchors. This is just one of many ways to do this and the abilty has been around since Flash5 and just one of many ways to accomplish what you want using string functions. Once you work out what lines are your section headings in the huge html textfield (which would change depending on the width of the field itself)...it's a breeze to make it look and act just like it's html counterpart would in a page.

Notice the scrollbar is sent to the correct position with each anchor. This HAS to use a scripted scrollbar and would not work if I enabled the scrollbar from the GUI. I could attach sounds to each section link....use buttons instead of text for the links or just about any other thing you could imagine.

Here is the kicker. Always look for the simplest solution for any problem and then expand upon a working routine. Other than the few lines of code to create the scrollbar in this one....the actual code to simulate the anchors is only one line of script.

I'm wrapping it up now for my download section. Now that my last portal is in place I'm adding all my downloads to my download module to continue supporting the platform.

This is pretty hot sh*t! Glad to see you are continuing to help the rest of us make the most of our use of KoolMoves.