linkevent node information

[mightyRGB]

Hi all,

I have an xml file with linkevents written in like this: <a href="event:images/image2.jpg">Image2</a>

when i run my actionscript, the links show up (amongst other text) in a textfield and when clicked trigger linkevents which create popups based on the url given in the xml. Is there any way to get additional information from the corresponding <a> node when a link is clicked? I want to possibly add a different sound for each link, but I'm not sure of what would be the best way of doing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[mathew.er]

The even is an instance of flash.events.TextEvent just the the text property set to the part after event: in href attribute. There could be more ways to add more info into that.

1. Store the additional info in some arrays...

var images : Array = ['image1.jpg', 'image2.jpg'];
var sounds : Array = ['sound1', 'sound2']; and the have the href as
<a href="event:0">link</a> where the number will be index of the array items. Here you would access it as

private function linkHandler ( linkEvent : TextEvent ) : void {
var index : int = int ( linkEvent.text );
var image : String = images[index];
var sound : String = sounds[index];
}

2. Store the info in an Obejct or Dictionary

var sounds : Object = {};
sounds["image1.jpg"] = 'sound1';
sounds["image2.jpg"] = 'sound2'; where the part after event: will be the same as those string keys (image1.jpg etc) and you would access the data as
private function linkHandler ( linkEvent : TextEvent ) : void {
var sound : String = sounds[linkEvent.text]
}

3. Have all the info in the href already, just separated by some string

<a href="event:image1.jpg|sound1">link</a> and then get the info by
private function linkHandler ( linkEvent : TextEvent ) : void {
var splitted : Array = linkEvent.text.split ( '|' );
var image : String = splitted[0];
var sound : String = splitted[1];
}

[mightyRGB]

Thanks mathew.er,

I used option 3 and it works well with my code :)