Adding links to a Panel container’s status text in Flex

The following example shows how you can assign an HTML formatted string to a Panel container’s status text field using the getStatusTextField() method in the mx_internal namespace.

Full code after the jump.

Since this example uses the mx_internal namespace, you can’t always depend on this behavior to work in future versions of the Flex SDK. Use at your own risk.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/17/adding-links-to-a-panel-containers-status-text-in-flex/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white"
        creationComplete="init();">

    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.core.IUITextField;
            import mx.controls.Alert;

            private function init():void {
                var tf:IUITextField = panel.mx_internal::getStatusTextField();
                tf.selectable = true;
                tf.addEventListener(TextEvent.LINK, textField_link);
                tf.htmlText = "status with <a href='event:showAlert'><u>link</u></a>";

            }

            private function textField_link(evt:TextEvent):void {
                Alert.show("Success! A Panel container with a link in the status text.", evt.text);
            }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>

    <mx:Panel id="panel"
            title="Title"
            status="status with link"
            width="320"
            height="240">
        <mx:Text text="Click the link in the Panel container's status bar to launch an Alert control."
                width="100%" selectable="false" />
        <mx:ControlBar>
            <mx:Text htmlText="&lt;b&gt;Note:&lt;/b&gt; The status text field must have it's selectable property set to true in order to dispatch the link event."
                    width="100%" selectable="false" />
        </mx:ControlBar>
    </mx:Panel>

</mx:Application>