Creating a hypertext link

In the Text inspector, you can turn any selected range of text into a hypertext link that links to a URL or initiates other actions. Director automatically adds standard hypertext link formatting to the selected text so that it initially appears with blue underlining. You can turn off this formatting in the Property inspector's Text tab. For more information, see Setting text or field cast member properties.

The following procedure describes how to add a hypertext link to selected text. To make a hypertext link active, you must write an on hyperlinkClicked event handler. For more information, see the Scripting Reference topics in the Director Help Panel.

You can enter any string in the Hyperlink text box; it does not have to be a URL. The string can't contain a double quotation mark or the script continuation character.

To define a hypertext link:

1. Select the text you want to define as a hypertext link.
2. Select Window > Text Inspector to open the Text inspector.
3. In the Hyperlink Data text box, enter the URL to which you want to link, or enter any message you want to send to the on hyperlinkClicked handler. Then press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh).