Craig Campbell’s School of Flash

It’s part of my evil little plan to give everybody carpal tunnel!

Actually, I DO have a good reason for it. If you type the code in yourself, it will stick in your memory better than if you just copy and paste it. Basically, I’m forcing you to practice! Does that make sense?

~Craig

Very Interesting!!!

Ahhh I can’t believe Adobe took something so easy and just ruined it!

Hi all, I’m new to flash (but not new to programming) and I have a straight remark : how on earth is it possible that the most useful thing like clicking on a banner to be forwarded to a website is so complex in AS3? It should be a simple option of the movie in the publish settings. I simply want any click on my banner to forward to my website, I don’t want anything fancy of any specific text or button to do it, I want the entire banner to do it, and I’m now forced to create a hack with a large transparent button and “uncompilable” code… Pffffff… anyway, thanks for your help

I have the following code published in html with an embed F9 AS3 swf file:
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myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseClick);

function onMouseClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
var request:URLRequest=new URLRequest(”http://www.in.gr”);
navigateToURL(request,”_blank”);
}
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When i click the button it doesn’t go to the link.

When i open the swf with flash player it does? why does this happen?

ok but where do you put this script, if not on an object like in AS2

I tryed that on a separeted layer but than for some reason
my txeff plugin (http://www.txeff.com/) action script or movie for some reson want work.. I thank you for your time, just this if you know something about

You can condense lines 5 and 6:

function onClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
navigateToURL(new URLRequest(”http://www.whatever.com”));
}

I copied the code as explained:

button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseClick);

function onMouseClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(”http://www.msn.com”);
navigateToURL(request, “_blank”);
}

even used the condensed version as “Worked” posted. Both does not work. It keeps stating 1 error “Description: ‘{’ expected; Source: function onMouseClick(e:MousEvent):void”

I tried placing this AS in it’s own layer, with the button, inside the button keyframe, etc. and none launched me to MSN.com. Please HELP. What the heck am I doing wrong?

Thank you for this…the “how” worked very well.

I still don’t understand why they did this and why it’s better to do it this way. Does it offer more flexibility for varying options? Does it allow for better browser integration? Please explain.

My problem is a little different.
This thread the closest thing that I’ve found to a solution on the web so far…I’m hoping I can find help here.

I am creading a CD Rom website with Flash CS3 and I need my flash button to link to a PDF file, opening it in a new browser window.

I used the script above and replaced the URL address with the path to my pdf file ( //content/1100w.pdf ) to no avail.

Craig! Help me out please! I’ve lookied through all of the LeranFlash.com tutorials that I have and could’nt find the solution.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to do a slide sync in AS3.0 and have everything in order until I tried to add a button to refer to a URL. Please take a look at my code and I added the suggested navigate to a URL code at the end of my other scripts. When I do this my flv Component icon just flashes and the movie no longer plays and I can not access the intended URL either. I started off with this template and just hoped to be able to use the get url command from AS2.0 associated with a specific button and that no longer seems possible… what a bummer

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
// *************************
// Stop the timeline
stop();

// *************************
import fl.video.*;
import flash.events.*;

// Button hilite graphic
var highlight_mc;

// *************************
// Navigation buttons call this function to trigger a change
// in the video and the view of the content

function seekToCuePoint( cueName ) : void
{
// Find the cue point in the FLVPlayback component, seek
// to time, and highlight the next button for a quick redraw
var c = display.findCuePoint( cueName );
display.seekSeconds( c.time );
findNextButton( c.name );
}

// *************************
// The natural flow through the video or jumping by seeking
// forward and backward will trigger the following function

function synchVideoToInterace( cueName:String ):void
{
// Play if needed
if(!display.isRTMP && !display.playing ){
display.play();
}

// Show associated content on screens or labeled frames
gotoAndStop( cueName );

// Update the higlight position
findNextButton( cueName );
}

// Layout the button highlight when requested

function findNextButton( cueName:String ):void
{
// Look for buttons named with the current cue point
// name plus the letters ‘_btn’ (i.e. studiomx_btn)
if( getChildByName(cueName+”_btn”) != null )
{
var cueBtn = this[cueName+”_btn”];

// Attach the highlight clip if needed
if( this[”highlight_mc”] == undefined ){
highlight_mc = new ThumbOutlineSelected();
addChild(highlight_mc);
}
highlight_mc.x = cueBtn.x;
highlight_mc.y = cueBtn.y;
}
}

// *************************
// Create event handler functions to catch events from
// the video component and update the interface…

function cuePointHandler( evt:MetadataEvent ):void
{
// Get the cue name from the event object
synchVideoToInterace( evt.info.name );
}
display.addEventListener(MetadataEvent.CUE_POINT,cuePointHandler);

// *************************

myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseClick);

function onMouseClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
var request:URLRequest=new URLRequest(?http://www.smpwebvideo.com?);
navigateToURL(request,?_blank?);
}

I’m fairly new to all programing and I’ve been learning from different posts online and with messing around. However I have not found a way to link to internal html files I have stored on a server. This is what i have

HOMEBUT.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,onMouseClick);

function onMouseClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
var request:URLRequest=new URLRequest(”/index.em?pid=817786″);
navigateToURL(request);
}

Is there a different way for relative urls and is that even the right term for them? Any answer would be appreciated.

Sneed: The actions need to be placed in the timeline where the button is placed, not in the button’s timeline. For example, if you placed your button on the main stage, you need give your button an instance name, then create a new layer on the main stage’s timeline for your ActionScript. If your button is in frame 1 of the main timeline, then you don’t need to add an extra keyframe, because there’s already a keyframe in frame 1 when you create the layer.

Hope this helps!

Craig