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@lancesnider lancesnider commented Apr 30, 2026

  1. Move Inputs out of the main nav, into the Legacy Features dropdown at the bottom of the sidebar.
  2. The Events page says Events are deprecated, which they are not.
  3. Split Events into 2 pages - one for valid events, one for the legacy Events at runtime

The Events page still needs a lot of love, but this at least gets rid of incorrect info.

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<Warning>
**DEPRECATION NOTICE:** This entire page documents the legacy Events system.
**For new projects:** Use [Data Binding](/runtimes/data-binding) instead.
**For existing projects:** Plan to migrate from Events to Data Binding as soon
as possible. **This content is provided for legacy support only.**
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This isn't true. Events are still valid, just not for communicating with the runtime code.

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Some minor things to consider, mostly around clarity! Thanks for doing this.

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@ErikUggeldahl I chatted with Hernan and Robert and ended up redoing a bunch of this. Most importantly, we're deprecating general events. 🎉

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Nits on casing and a comment about whether we want to allow URLs in the future. + perhaps we want to note that they won't be supported in new Android and Apple runtimes?


For general information about adding, creating, and signaling events, see [Rive Events](/editor/events/overview).

### URL Properties
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As a note, this functionality was never added to the command queue, and so we have no way of responding to them. We need to consider as a team whether we want this functionality. Is it a security risk to allow Rive files to open arbitrary URLs? What if they point a user to a compromised website or a phishing scam?

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This was always more of a convenience as well. Developers could still react to a data binding event and open a browser using whatever native APIs are available to do that.

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For now I'm adding a warning about Apple/Android, but I can definitely see getting rid of these altogether.

They tend to confuse people at runtime because they're disabled by default and aren't supported in the marketplace or share links. You need to set property to make them work.

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3 big new warnings that scream "maybe don't use this". 😂

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