Question

When I tried using a textfield as a button, it seems it is not having the buttonMode property.

How can I programatically create a text button using ActionScript in a Flash project.
It should be a simple text, which is clickable.

Answer 1

You can add the TextField to a Sprite and use it as the button. buttonMode is the property of Sprite class.

If you really want to use just a TextField, you can assign an anchor tag <a href="event:something">label</a> to its htmlText or listen to mouseOver and mouseOut events and show a custom hand cursor after hiding the default mouse pointer using Mouse.hide()