Really stupid flash question....

[MD]

When creating in flash, do you have to embed the link for the file in the flash file, or can you create a flash file in the same way as say an animated gif and then use HTML to code where the file has to point to?

Sorry for the n00b question, but I have just been forced to use flash for a project

m@

[Nemeliza]

To my knowledge the link has to be made in flash.

Although i cant say i have tried to enbed a flash applet in an "<A />" tag.

[MD]

well I have tried and tried to get the URL embedded, anyone got a step by step guide in Flash MX how to do this?

I did try, but every time the frame changed it poped up another window with the site on.

Its driving me mad, theres no simple step by step...

m@

[Nemeliza]

what exactly is it your trying to do?

Are you just making a flash animation that links to a webpage??

[turkster]

Well I'm not quite certain of what you want to do but if you want a button to open a webpage put this

 on (press) {
	getURL("http://www.hexus.net");
}

in the actionscript for your movieclip. That will open the target page in the same browser window .

[MD]

a ha, ill give that a go, Ive been bullied into using flash for the first time in my life lol.

Its for banners, but the URL's need to be embedded, Im giving it a go at least

Will try your suggestion tomorrow, I have fallen out with my PC now for rebooting randomly on me

[turkster]

flash rocks.......

or at least it does when it works.

Ive been messing around over the last few days trying to get flash to dynamically load pics with captions etc into duplicated movie clips using xml and it is fairly doing my head in .


EDIT if you want the whole banner to be a link the simplest thing would probably be to draw a square of colour the same size as the your banner, convert to symbol (movieclip), select the new movieclip change alpha to 0, and slap the above code into the actionscript box .