link to website from within a movieclip off a CD-rom

[nutbolt]

Hi
I need to link to a website from within a movieclip (this is for a CD_Rom so it will be a standalone projector.

This is the code I've got:

on(release)
{
_parent.getURL("http://www.asa100.com/", "_blank");
}

It does open the browser but dosn't go to the site. Can anyone help me with this.

Thanks for all the help.

Regards

[JacobHaug]

Take out parent...see if it works. If not put in _root.getURL

[nutbolt]

no
Doesn't work.

Thanks
Any other suggestions would be great.

[JacobHaug]

The code is correct, it is how you are using it. You must be doing something wrong. Can we see your edit file please.

[nutbolt]

K

First time I've uploaded a file but it says done.

The link is in 'menubar' it's 'suscricion' button. While your there I'm also having a similiar problem with the email links on page 'datos de contacto' maybe it's linked

thanks very much for your help

[JacobHaug]

Ummmm, there is no file attached to your post.

[nutbolt]

it says it's too big!

can i email it, please?

[MrMadison]

Upload it to a server or an upload site.

[JacobHaug]

Sure thing, my email address is in my profile!

[nutbolt]

which upload site?

[JacobHaug]

Try this site. Just send it to everyone's email address in this thread. Unless someone else knows a better one?

[JacobHaug]

The link works in the flash file itself. I can not say whether it works when you place it on the CD. But the code is correct, just has some minor formatting issues. Here is what I changed.

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on (release) {
    getURL("http://www.pr.aveda.com/", "_blank");
}

[nutbolt]

Hi Thanks for your help. Much appreiciated. Unfortunately, still doesn't work.

I think the problem may be because it's a standalone projector, more likely, I think.

I did find this thread today that I think may help:

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s...ht=applescript

Post 13. mentions the problem I've got but because I'm pretty new to this I'm not sure what goes at 'somelink'

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somelink.onRelease = function {
getURL('http://www.someurl.com/', '_blank');
};

Does anyone know?? Maybe this'll be the solution.

Regards, and thanks again Jacob & co.

[JacobHaug]

That is the same code as the link code above. It is just that code you put on a frame and give the button an instance name, and change the instance "somelink" to what ever instance name you gave your button. I am don't think that will work either...I will do some checking and see what is going on.

[nutbolt]

Hi

I've managed to solve this problem!

This is probably not the best solution but I needed to get the cd-rom working. Once i'd completed the cd-rom (this isn't a web-based project) I made a copy of the flash file; one for pc and one for mac.

The copy for pc worked fine with this code:

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on (release) {
    getURL("http://www.pr.aveda.com/", "_blank");
}

and the same with 'mailto' codes, etc.


But I couldn't get it to work for the Mac file. Somebody told me they were 'pretty sure it wasn't possible to use this code as it was only understood by the browser', I don't know whether this is true but it made sense to me because I couldn't it to work on my Mac. (Although other people said they could get it to work)

I decided to buy a third party application called 'Fire-up'. Here's the site for more details:

http://www.atomiksoftware.com/fire-up/

"Macromedia Flash projectors allow you to launch an application, but not to open a file. Fire-Up solves this issue..."

this worked really well. I was pretty deparate to solve this problem so I had to pay about £25 for Fire-up. I do feel that I cheated though. So, if anyone does know how to do this I'd love to here from them, via this thread, to help solve this problem with actionscript.

Thanks Loads for all the input.

Regards Nutbolt