I have an error message with my actionscript that's DOING MY HEAD IN!

Hi guys

I'm creating some buttons with flash (CS3) and I've got a problem. When I type in the following action code:

on (Release) {getURL("see.html", "_self");}

I get the following error message:

1087: syntax error. extra characters found after end of program

I can't seem to work out what this means. When I try exactly the same code in other flash buttons it works perfectly... just not on my new ones.

I've recently swapped from a pc to a mac, and from Studio 8 to CS3. Don't know if that makes any difference...

Any help would be gratefully received!

Yeah, are you using AS 3 or 2. AS 3 is completely different. I've only glanced at AS 3, so i don't know if i can help much. I'll fool around and get back to you...

Not sure about AS3 but off the top of my head change your on (Release) to on (release) lowercase makes a difference.

Cheers,

Scott

Thanks MrMadison. I'm using AS 2...

Thanks Scott - i got very excited then, but sadly changing it to lowercase didn't help. Sorry!

Ok try it like this:

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on (release) {getURL("see.html", _self);}

remove the "" from the _self, and are you applying this directly to a button? I am not getting any errors.

HI - thanks for that. Doesn't work either, I'm afraid. Any other ideas? Am I doing something else wrong maybe?

hey mate dont know if this would help

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on(release) {
    getURL ("http://", _newCF);
}

Wayne

I need to play around with Flash CS3 some more, everyone keeps getting this error and it makes no sense to me. :-)

funny, that code worked for me in AS 2....
Yeah,....button or something else...you might not have the target set.