Dispatch Events Using Dynamic Text

Adam Khoury Published : November 14, 2014
Last Edited : November 24, 2025
Author : Adam Khoury
Learn how to dispatch stage events that would normally require a button or movieclip instance on stage to make occur. We are using dynamic text instead. We set the event: identifier in the link field in the properties inspector for that dynamic text field we wnat to make active. Then we just script our event listeners and functions to fire off like normal. Free editable source file with video walkthrough.