I'm sure this is real simple because everybody in the world does it, but I'll
be darned if I can find in the manuals or the forum how to set up a hyperlink
in a flash banner I've created that I want to add to a site.

Essentially I just want the viewer to be able to click on the banner and be
sent to another page. I thought I could create a hotspot in dreamweaver over
the flash image, but that doesn't seem to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

HTML hyperlinks do not get applied to Active Objects like Flash movies. You
need to create the link inside Flash itself using getURL(). Try creating a
large, transparent movieclip on the top layer of your banner and apply the "Go
To Webpage" behavior with an "onRelease" Event.

Regards,

-- Mike

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place in first frame of your movie :
_root.onMouseDown = function() {
getURL("http://www.yahoo.com", "_blank");
};

it's a global events, does mot require instance , it will work whenever clicked
within flash area .


--

Regards


urami_*



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One more question on this subject if I may....

I was able to get the hyperlink set up to work fine. However is there a way to
get the mouse-over finger to show when the mouse moves over the flash movie?

Thanks!

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If you want Hand than you must have instance of movie clip or button.
Tho you don't need to make button , you can build it dynamically .

Just paste the following in first frame of your timeline

this.createEmptyMovieClip("button", 1);
button.beginFill(0xCCCCCC, 0);
button.lineTo(Stage.width, 0);
button.lineTo(Stage.width, Stage.height);
button.lineTo(0, Stage.height);
button.endFill();
button.onRelease = function() {
trace("done");
getURL("http://wwww.yahoo.com", "_blank");
};


If you want to see it on preview , change the alpha opacity , I set it to zero
to make it invisible but you can set it to any value you wish , edit :

button.beginFill(0xCCCCCC, 0);

to
button.beginFill(0xCCCCCC, 100);


--

Regards


urami_*



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</no>

Urami -- you are a MAESTRO!

Many thanks! (Man this stuff is DEEP!)