User Guide

Creating a hypertext link 171
6 To specify the cast members in which to search, select one of the following Search options:
Cast Member [Cast Member Name] limits the search to the current cast member.
Cast [Cast Name] limits the search to cast members in the current cast.
All Casts extends the search to all cast members in all casts.
7 To set additional search options, select Wrap-Around, Whole Words Only, or Case Sensitive.
Wrap-Around specifies whether Director returns to the beginning of text after it reaches the
end. If you select this option but not All Casts, Director continues searching from the top of
the current text after it reaches the bottom of the window. If you select both options, Director
searches all cast members of the same type (either text, field, or script, depending on where you
initiated the search), beginning with the currently selected cast member and returning to the
first cast member of that type if necessary.
Whole Words Only searches only for occurrences of the specified whole word.
Case Sensitive searches only for text with the same capitalization as the text in the Find box.
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” on page 174.
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).