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Flash Tutorial - Links/Hyperlinks

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Step Six: Adding the ActionScript - Window Options

Example: To see a range of Framesets showing both Flash Movie and HTML links: Frameset Example

Your Action Panel should still be open and look like this.

Note: If your Action Panel is not open to get back here do the following

1. Select the: Button
2. Open the Actions panel: Window > Actions (F9)
   

If you wish you can select a Window Option. This controls how the page will open in relation to the Browser. If you do not set the Window option the page will simply open in same Browser Window which is the default for web links. So you do not have to set any of these options and if you are not sure do not use any of these options. The choices are:

Self
Loads link into the current browser window.

Blank
Loads the link into a new Browser Window. I selected blank in the example here:

Example: Download the Flash file  Beg 015a

Example of a button with a hyperlink to the webwasp home page.

Frames: Parent
Loads the link into a frame-set page. If you use farmed web pages you will know what to do with this, if you have never used framed web pages don't. In my opinion Framed pages are problematic. Search Engines make a dogs dinner of your site and if a search engine takes you to a page outside the frame-set, you lose all the links and the site useless.

Frames: Top
Also to do with a frame-sets. It loads the link on the top frame.

Note: In Flash test mode your chosen Window mode may not work correctly as the Test Mode does not play in a Web Browser but in a Flash Player. Don't worry about this as it will work when you publish your movie into a web page.

Cross Ref: If you need to know how to publish your Flash Movie see: Publishing a Flash Movie

Frame Names
If you want to link to a specific Frame other than the one that the Flash Movie is in you will need to include the Frame Name. This is not easy to do with Script Assist on so I suggest that you switch it off and simply type in the Actions panel. After the web page name type a comma and then add your Frameset Name like this:

on (release) {
    getURL("webPageName.htm", "framesetName");
}

Note: Remember the "quote-marks". If you do not place quotation marks Flash will look for a variable, which is not what you want.

Example: To see a range of Framesets showing both Flash Movie and HTML links: Frameset Example

Good luck and I hope this tutorial has helped.