Linking buttons to URL. Something is wrong. Please help!

[Tiruak]

Ok, from the title you can probably tell im a beginner to Flash.
I'm using CS3, and am trying to create a "menu" to this one webpage.

I did 4 animated buttons, but now im having problems making them link to my pages. I will describe with details what I did:

First, I thought about select the button, and go to the Action panel and enter the script over there. For my surprise, when I try to type it in the action script 3, it comes up with the message "Current selections cannot have actions applied to it".

Then, second thing I did, was to go to my main project, add labels to all my buttons (b_1, b_2, b_3 and b_4), add a Layer, and on the first frame of this new layer, I go to the action panel and tryied the following sintaxe for my script:

function onCompanyClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {
getURL("company.html");
}
b_1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,onCompanyClick);
 

So you understand, the b_1 is the instance name of my first button (which is called Company), and I did repeat that for all other buttons.

At first I was positive it was going to work, but then when i try to publish, it says the there is something wrong with the "getURL("company.html") part of the code. It's probably becuase thats not the correct syntax to call a webpage using Action Script 3.0 (I dont have any AC experience, my programming skills are from other languages, and I'm just experimenting on flash).

So, if anyone can help me, what would be the right syntaxe to call my webpage on that function? And also, why cant I just add it to the button?

Thanks for any help

[Motoma]

Take a look at this page. It has information on the changes that were implemented in Flash 9 as far as getURL is concerned.

[Tiruak]

Take a look at this page. It has information on the changes that were implemented in Flash 9 as far as getURL is concerned.

Thanks Motoma, it has a nice explanation on the link, but I'm still having problems.

im using the following code:

b_1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, callCompany);
function callCompany():void {
    var myurl:String = "http://www.geekavailable.com";
    var myrequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(myurl);
    navigateToURL(myrequest);
}
 

And I'm receiving this error message on the output window when I try to click the button:

ArgumentError: Error #1063: Argument count mismatch on header_menu_fla::MainTimeline/callCompany(). Expected 0, got 1.

So now, I'm assuming I passed an argument I shouldn't, but my lack of knowledge on the language doesn't let me find what it is.

Any other tips?

[Tiruak]

Well, actually i got it to work.
What was missing is the function definition as a mouse event. So correct code is:

b_1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, callCompany);
function callCompany(event:MouseEvent):void {
    var myrequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("mycompany.html");
    navigateToURL(myrequest);
}
 

Thanks anyways.

I just dont understand why Adobe did this kind of change on simple funcionts like getURL and some others. For experts it may be easy to figure out, but for me was just a pain in the butt.

[Motoma]

I am glad you have found your solution. Thank you for posting the correct code. You are welcome back here anytime you have a question, or feel like answering someone else's.

[Phat]

can someone tell me how i could properly add an href tag to this?
i want my link to open on the same browser , not a different one each time and this didn't work:

btnLocation.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, callLocation);
function callLocation(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var myrequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://alpha.cvscardio.com/Locations.aspx");
navigateToURL(myrequest,'_self');
}

[Motoma]

can someone tell me how i could properly add an href tag to this?
i want my link to open on the same browser , not a different one each time and this didn't work:

btnLocation.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, callLocation);
function callLocation(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var myrequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://alpha.cvscardio.com/Locations.aspx");
navigateToURL(myrequest,'_self');
}

You cannot navigate the special windows "_self", "_top", or "_parent" if your SWF file is contained by an HTML page that has set the allowScriptAccess to "none", or to "sameDomain" when the domains of the HTML file and the SWF file do not match.

You will have to change your embed tag to have the AllowScritpAccess set, as well as add a param tag to do the same thing.

[Phat]

that did not work for me.. i changed the allowscript to always

I'm new to all this, thanks for your help.

any other ideas?

[Motoma]

Heh...Google maybe? I don't have Flash 9 so my web-spelunking will be just as effective as yours.

[Motoma]

If you find the answer, it would be nice to know what the solution is.