Dispatched when a user clicks a hyperlink in an HTML-enabled text field, where the URL begins with “event:”. The remainder of the URL after “event:” will be placed in the text property of the LINK event.

Note: The default behavior, adding the text to the text field, occurs only when Flash Player generates the event, which in this case happens when a user attempts to input text. You cannot put text into a text field by sending it textInput events.

Defines the value of the type property of a link event object.This event has the following properties:

Example

package {
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.errors.IOError;
    import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
    import flash.events.TextEvent;
    import flash.media.Sound;
    import flash.media.SoundChannel;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;

    public class TextField_event_link extends Sprite
    {
        private var myMP3:Sound;
        public function TextField_event_link() {
            myMP3 = new Sound();
            var list:TextField = new TextField();
            list.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
            list.multiline = true;
            list.htmlText = "<a href=\"event:track1.mp3\">Track 1</a><br>";
            list.htmlText += "<a href=\"event:track2.mp3\">Track 2</a><br>";
            addEventListener(TextEvent.LINK, linkHandler);
            addChild(list);
        }

        private function playMP3(mp3:String):void {
            try {
                myMP3.load(new URLRequest(mp3));
                myMP3.play();
            }
            catch(err:Error) {
                trace(err.message);
            }
            myMP3.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, errorHandler);
        }

        private function linkHandler(linkEvent:TextEvent):void {
            playMP3(linkEvent.text);
        }

        private function errorHandler(errorEvent:IOErrorEvent):void {
            trace(errorEvent.text);
        }
    }
}

This flash example we are going to make does not require much visual work on the stage, the only thing we need is to make a text field so grab the text tool and drag a text field on the stage, go to the properties panel and make it a dynamic text field (so it can receive input). Then give it an instance name, I named mine message_ (not message because that word is reserved by flash code).

Now everything else is done by code, so open up the flash action script panel and type in the following code, I made some description in between the code to make it more understandable.
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//First we declare our textfield object so it exists in flash.
var thelink:TextField = new TextField();

//Now we give the text field a value to show and as we use the htmltext
//it renders the content as html code, (quite a nice feature I think).
//An inportant thing to notice here is the event:you clicked it. this,
//this is the event that will be raised when the link is clicked.
thelink.htmlText = ’<a href=”event:You%20clicked%20it”>Click here</a>’;

//here we add the link to the main stage (of cause if you want to add it
//else where, just refere to the position (eg. movieclip.addChild(thelink).
addChild(thelink);

//These two lines is just to place the link somewhere on the stage and not in position 0,0.
thelink.x = 50;
thelink.y = 20;

//And we are working in AS3 so we need to add an eventlistener to tell flash to listen to,
//if the link is clicked.
thelink.addEventListener(TextEvent.LINK, linkEvent);

//And here is the function to “run” the event, it bascilly just says to wirte the event text
//in our text field which we named “message_”
function linkEvent(event:TextEvent):void {
message_.text = event.text
}