Combining TextEvent with Dispatch event

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[5TonsOfFlax]

Yep. You simply need to create your TextEvent properly.

var te:TextEvent = new TextEvent(TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT, false, false, "OPTION1");
dispatchEvent(te);

In general, I'd caution against using TextEvents for things that are not truly text related. Instead, you can create your own custom event type.

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[neznein9]

Is this what you're trying to do?

myTextField.dispatchEvent(new TextEvent(TextEvent.LINK, false, false, 'OPTION1')); 

Or are you trying to customize the events off of the inline links...like so:

myTextField.htmlText = '<a href="event:OPTION1">linky</a>'; 

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[neznein9]

Flax's example is assuming you are listening to 'this' with your eventListener...if you wanted to directly inject that event to the function you could pass it as an argument instead of going through the event structure:

myHandler(new TextEvent(TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT, false, false, "OPTION1")); 

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