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How to Getting URL. Launch Flash Designer. Choose “Frame” > “Frame Size” to set movie dimensions. Choose “Text” tool and click on the frame. Type the text (for example “selteco.com”) and click OK. Choose “Edit” > “Align” > “Center on Page” to center the text on the frame. Choose “Action” > “OnClick” Choose “Get URL” [...]

To go to a new Web page using Flash buttons as your navigation, put this script on a button in your FLA: on (release) { getURL(“http://flashconf.com/”); } Change the URL to match your needs. You can use a relative address instead of an absolute one. You can add a target to the script, inside the [...]

To add some interactivity to the flash animated part of your web design template you should add some links to the flash objects. For example you’ll need to link flash buttons with pages of your website or redirect your flash intro to homepage after it finished. There are some kinds of links in Macromedia Flash: [...]

In Actionscript  and Actionscript 2  it is really easy. Example: getURL(“http://domain.com/webpage.html”,”_blank”); But the easiest way is to do it in Actionscript 3.0  is textfield.htmlText htmlText code var link:TextField = new TextField(); link.htmlText = “<a href=’http://domain.com’>SomeDomain</a>”; addChild(link); setStyle What about making the text blue AND underlined like a normal HTML link, how would one go about [...]