Colouring certain words in a textfield

[Hippyscum]

Hey folks, I was wondering if something like this was possible

I'd create a textfield, and in another layer I add buttons I put over certain words in the textfield

and then via actionscripting I address these words, and dynamicly give these words a diffrent color (mouseover effect)

for instance:
on mouseover
textfield.word "blabla" color #111111

hope its a bit clear and thanks =)

[a_modified_dog]

if using buttons, why not put text in button frames
ie ..
"up" frame - blabla - black text
"over" frame - blabla - red text

[Hippyscum]

well because I was planning to only use the 'hit' state so I could reuse 1 button over and over, and it saves me the button positioning in the text area's. sorry should have added that.

[a_modified_dog]

you probably have to go the movieclip and positioning route

[Hippyscum]

[edit] thats almost it, but I kinda wished it was possible the actual text in the textfield could change, because this way I still have to position the 'button' text very precicely over the previous text

if not possible I'm still thankfull for this, cheers =)

[a_modified_dog]

the only other method i can think of is to count the
chars. in the textfield to apply a text format to -

this.createTextField("mytext", 10, 300, 200, 10, 10);
mytext.autoSize = true;
mytext.text = "Hello Mum :)  Hello World";
mytext.textColor = 0xFF0000;

btn.onRollOver = function(){
blue = new TextFormat();
blue.color = 0x0000FF;
mytext.setTextFormat(6,18,blue);
}; 

[Hippyscum]

that'll be a bit too hard to work with, but I'll use your first suggestion, it will save me quite some button making time, thanks