title: Clickable links in a scrolling HTML enabled dynamic textfield in Flash AS2 movie - works in Flash Pro, not in browser
body: <p>I have developed a rolling credits style movieclip in Flash using Actionscript 2. Text is loaded from an XML file and parsed into a dynamic textfield. This text includes hyperlinks to webpages defined by a url node in the xml so Flash can add the appropriate a href to the dynamic text field and make the link clickable.</p>
  
  <p>In my first attempts to do this the textfield stayed still and all the links worked fine both testing locally and when I run it in a browser on my website.</p>
  
  <p>Then I wanted to make things move ... which I achieved easily enough and tested locally (from within Flash Professional) and the links remained clickable, a browser window opened and the webpage i was expecting to see opened... great</p>
  
  <p>However, when I export the swf, upload it and run it from my website suddenly the links are not working. So I tried to test the movie in a browser from Flash Pro - same problem, it must be something to do with Flash Player and the moving dynamic textfield.</p>
  
  <p>a couple of observations - the cursor will change to a hand icon when over the links as you would expect, and if I right click on the link and click open in a new window the link works ok, just not when I left click. If I stop the scrolling then the links become clickable again, it is only when the textfield is moving... actually its not technically scrolling, im moving the whole textfield.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas? </p>