Flash :: Buttons, Links, Images Etc.

Making Images/buttons Links
Hello,

I am trying to make an image that I have in Flash 5.0 a link. Here's what I've done:

I have the image Tweened with a Motion Guide moving from side of the screen to the next.

I made the image a 'convert to symbol', and a button, and each time i go to the actions menu to tell it to 'go to url' on mouse release, the mouse event options are not available (ie: they are blurred out as to not be an otion). I can still put in the 'go to url' option, but then the image goes to the url immediately when it appears on the screen. I need the image to be a link that goes to the url when you click on it.

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks,
Ashley

Scroll Images With Links And Text With Links
Im trying to create a page on my flash site(http://www.swytchk.com) so that users are able to download.... I wanted to have text so they can download music,and a image preview of the wallpaper they want to download. But both type of links must be able to scroll.

PLEASE HELP

Images Links Help
i have some small images i'm using as links. ON the main stage view, the images are are correctly placed in line on top so there's like the same image on two layers but looks like just one. When i test the movie, i make it stop at a certain point. Whent he movie stops, all the images jump or nudge themselvs up a bit. The I've played the movie ont he stage and it doesn't do this so why is it doing it when i test the movie?

Links - Images - On A MovieClip
Hi can you assign a link to a movie clip, im trying to assign a link to an image that i have imported in, and the links are in a text file, its all set up, except that the holder for my image is a movie clip, and i thinks this is what is messing it up,
Does it have to be a graphic to have a button/graphic to be able to carry a link, beacause i cant change the behaviour of my holder now,
ahhhhhh the frustration that is Macromedia Flash MX, i luv it!
Lee

Imported - Images - Links
Basically the bit i need help on is detailed below, and this is what i want it to do:

Ive imported an image,
Its imported into a Movie Clip,
I want the image to have a link to a webpage on it,
I want to take the link form a text file i have,

***Is This Possible??

myVarsL["link0" + imageloaded] <== Where link is, and variable name

_root.mc2.placeholder_mc2 <== Where image is imported to

How would i do this?
Ive tried but with no luck
Lee

Fading Images With Links
Hello,

Here’s what I’m trying to do:

When you roll over the studio link the studio image fades in and when you rollover the babies link, the baby image fades in over it. When you roll back over the studio link, nothing happens.

What I want to happen is when you roll back over the other link, the one image fades out and the other image fades in. I will end up having about 10 links that I want to create this effect on.

I’m using a motion tween for the fading. I don’t know if there is a better or easier way to do this.

Here’s the link: Sample page

And I’ve attached the .fla file.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Cris

Links To Images - Help Required Please...
I am trying go establish whether it is possible to create a flash based gallery where the images used can be change dynamically by simply changing the images in a folder. In other words, when I place the swf file on my web page it actually loads the images from an external source instead of them being embedded. So all I have to do is change the images being sourced and the swf file will update when loaded.
Please could someone let me know if this is possible and if so, how I can achieve this..

Many thanks.

[CS3] Adding Links To Images
Hi there,
I have a script that scrolls the images left or right on hover and I would like to add a link to each image.

However, I looked at several other threads out there and can't seem to figure out how to get it to work for mine...
my script is too big to attach, but basically I'm just looking to figure out how to add a link to an image.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance!

Jeremy

Xml Images That Act As Html Links
hi guys. can anyone tell me how to make these images that are loaded via xml into my movie clickable links?

it's got me stumped.

the files can be found at http://www.forcetwelve.net/test.zip

Scrolling Images With Links
Hello, I am kind of new to the flash world. I am helping design a new website for our small business. The business is for Fine Art photography. I am trying to find a way to create a scrolling menu with images. I want to show the thumbnails of the artistic prints that we are going to be selling in a scrolling area that will be able to link to a new scene where the details for that individual image are displayed. I have used the built in flash 8 component for scrolling, but I am unable to link anything from the movie clip that I am scrolling. I apologize if this question has been adressed before, as I said before, I am kind of new to this. Thanks for reading.

Chris

Using XML To Make Images Links
I've been working for quite some time to get a slideshow of images pulled from my xml file to each have it's own link to a separate URL when clicked. I've got the first image opening a new URL but the following images are only returning the first image's URL and not their own.
My XML file looks like this:

HTML Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<portfolio>

<img url="../images/24keys-cover-sm.jpg" title="24 Keys to Complete Success" author="by Paul J. Meyer" description="Looking for success? This is a must-read." link="http://www.theleadingedgepublishing.com/item_7/24-Keys-That-Bring-Complete-Success.html"/>
My ActionScript that looks like this:

ActionScript Code:
var links_array:Array = new Array();

function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
trace("XML file loaded!");
xmlNode = this;
total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
trace(xmlNode.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.link);
links_array[i] = xmlNode.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.link;
}
} else {
content = "XMLfile not loaded!";
}
}

xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("books.xml");

invisible_btn.onRelease = function(){
trace(links_array[0]);
getURL(links_array[0], "_blank");
};

I'm sure I'm doing something obvious incorrect, given that I don't know what the heck I'm doing. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Embeding 260 Images And Links
Hi,

I was wondering how to embed a 360 pic. I already have the quicktime files but having trouble embedding them.

Also I am linking scenes for my site. When i click on a word the link is for the letter of each word and not the word itself.

For example, for the word library the links are the letters and not the whole word. As a result i dones not look good during the rollovers.

thank you,

Rotating Images ( With Links )
I have this page where I need some images to fade in and out, and since there are going to be about 20 of them, I'm trying to keep the file size down by using external images.

I've got that working . ..but now I need some way to have the images link to pages. Each image needs to link to a different page.

Likely, I think, the best thing to do is to have .swf files rotate instead of just the images, but I don't know how to do that besides using the timeline, and that means I'd have to have this long elaborate timeline that would be a pain the . . err. . neck . .to be changing all the time as needed.

this is what I have right now : demonstration fla ( dl'd from flashkit.com )

Anybody know what I should do ?

XML Loaded Images With Specified Links
If anyone could help me out it would be much appreciated. I have menu system built loading XML, when you click a menu item it loads up a seperate XML file for a picture gallery. When you click on a thumbnail it shows a preview image of the thumbnail, and I want it so when you click the preview image it will open upto a new browser and go directly to an image i specify in my XML.

Here is the code I wrote:

function createGallery(gallery_xml)
{
var galleryPictures = gallery_xml.firstChild.childNodes;

imageGallery = mainMenu.attachMovie("gallery_mc","imageGallery_mc ", 300); //attaches dynamic text box for preview description
imageGallery_image = mainMenu.attachMovie("galleryimage_mc","imageGalle ry_image_mc",302);
imageGallery_image.createEmptyMovieClip("image_con tainer",400);
imageGallery._x = 280; //attaches and sets image gallery
imageGallery._y = 230; // at this X and Y

thumb_holder = menuMovieClip.attachMovie("gallerythumb_mc", "gallery_holder", 251); //attaches thumbnail skeletons

imageGallery_image._x = 275;
imageGallery_image._y = 180;

for (var i = 0; i < galleryPictures.length; i++){
var currPicture = galleryPictures[i];

var currThumb_mc = thumb_holder.attachMovie("thumbgallery_mc","thumbs "+thumb_count,270+thumb_count);

currThumb_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("thumb_container ",280+thumb_count); currThumb_mc.thumb_container.loadMovie(currPicture .attributes.thumb);

.........

currThumb_mc.image = currPicture.attributes.image;
currThumb_mc.description = currPicture.attributes.description;
imageGallery_image_mc.link = currPicture.attributes.link;

currThumb_mc.onRollOver = currThumb_mc.onDragOver = function () {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (this.thumbgallery_bg._alpha < 100) {
this.thumbgallery_bg._alpha += 10;
}
}
}
currThumb_mc.onRollOut = currThumb_mc.onDragOut = function () {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (this.thumbgallery_bg._alpha > 0) {
this.thumbgallery_bg._alpha -= 13;
}
}
}

currThumb_mc.onRelease = function(){
imageGallery_image.image_container.loadMovie(this. image);
imageGallery.gallery_txt.text = this.description;
imageGallery_image.image_container._y = -80;
//imageGallery_image._x = 280;
//imageGallery_image._visible = false;

}
imageGallery_image.onMouseUp = function(){

getURL(imageGallery_image_mc.link, "_blank");

}

}

The red part is the code I'm trying to use. I tryed many variations on the code I have there, including changing the actual function name, and the link name inside of the getURL. Each thumbnail inside of the XML file has a specified "link" attribute, which I want my code to load when you click on the preview image that comes up. I know this is a simple problem, I just can't seem to figure it out and it's been driving me nuts!

XML Links On Images Or Texts
I found this template, it is really close to what I want for my project.

This is a photo gallery that pulls images and texts from XML. I would like to know if there is anyway that I can put links on either or both images and texts by actionscript inside, XML or both (I am pretty sure that it is going to be both).

Big thanks in advance

link: http://www.braingiants.com/
"photodrop"

[MX04] Scrolling Images That Are Links
I am trying to scroll a 4 images across the table and have each image being a link to a different URL. I get the images to scroll, but the hot areas don't. I have looked through the tutorials, but have seen nothing that helps me. (did I miss it??) Any ideas??

Actionscript Controlled Images And Links
Hello everyone!

Anyone know a tutorial about that, or can give me the basic drift?
I want to make this: a small version of an image (thumb). When the mouse goes over a bigger version of the image to appear that has on it some words. when a mouse goes over the words another image to appear. Something like three columns drop down menus but with background images.

Thanks in advance.

Images Or Text With Links To Other Pages
Can I link an image or text to a web page?

Making Links From XML Loaded Images
Hi,

I want to make a slideshow where the images are loaded by xml. This will be done by actionscript and will be all done on one frame. I was wondering if I could make each image behave like a button so the user can click on them and link to different locations. I didn't know if this could be done since the images will all be loaded into the same movieclip.

Thanks

Couple Of Questions..images And Links
Hi there.

got a couple of things.

1 - how do you make image stay where they are? basically, i got 3 images that move into the movie onto different areas, all at the same time, however, they disappear once they've done their moving, and the rest of the flash carries on. So, how do you make them stay where they are without copying/pasting each individual frame??

2 - linking. i got an idea of "click here" comes onto the screen, the 'click' from the left, and the 'here' from the right, and when they come together, you can click it to continue. if this cant be done, or is too complicated for my simple brain (which wouldn't surprise me), then a simple fade in of the click here will do. (i can do fades..just not the linking)

3 - this carries on from the linking. As, when you press "click here", all the images etc..look like they come zooming towards you in a blurry kind of way, like in star trek with the stars come zooming towards you, giving you a sense of speed and going forwards. Then, when thats done and they've disappeared, the next page loads.

this is probably alot of work, but my flash skills haven't caught up with my imagination...so..if there is some tutorials that do that, then please point me in their direction, otherwise, just reply as normal i guess..

thanks

Placing Links On As2 Slideshow Images
hello,

i really like the simple slideshow app i downloaded from here. i just have a quick question if anyone know. how do i add a link to the images so when you clikc on the image it goes to a url listed in the images.xml file?

thanks

j

Making Links On Rolling Images
Hey all,

I'm new to Flash, especially AS3. Not knowing the terminology fully, I'm also at a bit of a loss as to how to search for this particular problem.

I have a page that used SWF files heavily located here;

http://www.calvarycc.org.au

The flash files are in AS2. What I am wanting to do is convert all of the flash files on this page, including the video and place it all into one flash swf file. Now I'm almost there, but I'm struggling with the code on an issue.

If you look at the page mentioned above, the two large swf file roughly middle of the page scroll through different images, which are movie clips in the fla file. each image has it's own link to another page.

My question is, how can I achieve the same effect in AS3?

In AS2 I had to place the action script at the point in the time line where the image appeared so on the rollover event, the movie clip activated and the link became active. When I tried doing this using the AS3 scripting I get the error."Access of Undefined property.

All movie clips have instances. any help would be appreciated

Cheers

Dean -------------------------------------------------------------
"The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit."

Possible To Seamlessly Animate Three Images Together For URL Links?
Hello there,

I'm not personally doing the Flash end of this particular project but I am providing the artwork and masterminding behind it. The project calls for a "weird looking plant" with animated flowers serving as the links. Here's what I'm wanting to happening...

+ Flash loads, buds grow out of the plant and blossom into flowers.
+ Flowers wilt on mouse-over > click > content page loads in frame below.
+ Move mouse away, the wilted flower regenerates back to it's original (default) state.

Now, my question is, would this be possible to do seamlessly with using only three source images (bud, flower, wilted) and still maintaining the original image quality? If so, how?

The guy I have doing the Flash end of the design is an IT student but he doesn't understand how to bring this vision to life.

If it helps, I'll go ahead and attach the three source images.

Thank you very much for your time.

[F8] HELP Making Links To Flash Screen Images
I have a website with a Flash screen in the middle and I need to create links to the 6 images cycling on the screen in the center of the home page.

Please advise!

Thanks in advance!

[F8] Assigning Links To Flash Screen Images?
How do I do this?

Thanks in advance!

Help/advice External Text W/ Links And Images
I want to get away from using plain txt files, the layouts are boring and I want to give the clients more freedom with adding content per page.

What route should I go in creating this? Would XML be the way to go? I've only used XML for photo galleries.

Is there anyway a client or I can create a nice HTML like layout out of Flash and have Flash load that page?

Mulitple Images With Links Not Working. Any Ideas?
I have several images I need to link individually to seperate sites. I have each one in its own layer and only the bottom layer in the timeline will work properly. I don't know if it is a problem with the actionscript or something else. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Dynamic Text Images And Links Not Aligning
I have several thumbnail images side by side in a dynamic text box. Each one of these thumbnails links to the full picture. In order to get the images to not overlap, I'm using the <hspace> tag. The problem is that although the images are moving horizontally, the links are also being moved. So the first image and link are aligned, but the second link is too far to the right, the third a bit farther to the right and so on. Here is my code from my .txt file:

<a href="media/photoGallery/PGact2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="media/photoGallery/thumbnails/PGact2T.jpg" /></a>
<a href="media/photoGallery/PGact1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="media/photoGallery/thumbnails/PGact1T.jpg" hspace="61" /></a>
<a href="media/photoGallery/PGact4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="media/photoGallery/thumbnails/PGact4T.jpg" hspace="114" /></a>

So there is about 100 pixels or so of clickable whitespace after thumbnail 3, and when you click over the 3rd image you get the full picture of thumbnail 2. Any ideas?

Help With Scrolling A Random Number Of Images & Links From A Database
If anyone could help, I would VERY much appreciate it.

I am a newbie when it comes to ActionScript, but I've been using Flash since Flash 2... Just a simple designer with ActionScript problems.

Anyway, I am trying to create a scrolling movie with left and right buttons to control the scrolling.

What will be scrolling is a group of images and links that are fed from a database using Swift Generator and our mySQL database.

I have figured out Swift Generator enough to understand how to feed data, but I don't really even know how to get started scrolling a random number of images.

Can anyone help?

Flash Links To HTML Page/images Not Loading
We're using a flash navigation to open html pages in an i-frame. The problem is that the images aren't loading properly all the time. It's random but if you just move around clicking the navigation and having pages open in the i-frame, the images will either

a: not load
b: only partially load
c: or they will load fully

If you click the same link a second time (where an image did not load or partially loaded) the image will come up fine. I'm trying to narrow down what could possibly be causing this problem.

Anyone have any experience with this before?

Thanks.

External File Scroller - Links, Text And Images
Hello all!

Quick question. I want to dynamically load an html document within a scroller.

I want to include hyperlinks as well. I have some crude action script written which works until I nest it. Is their some source out there to accomplish this? The problem I've had is when the code I'm using is referenced within the timeline but it is nested a below the top.

I have two scenes escena 1 and escena nested. It works in the first and not in the other.

Please let me know if someone can help me take this the rest of the way.

Thanks!

-D-light

Help Needed: Applying Images/links To Multiple Faces On A 3D Cube
I posted a fortnight ago, but it didn't seem to gain any attention, so I was hoping someone who missed it last time may be able to help me.

I've used two differing 3D Cube ActionScripts, each generates a different type of 3D Cube - one has colored faces and individual links for each side and the other has individual images/movie-clips per face but only one link for the whole cube.

What I want to achieve is a cube with 6 different imaged faces and 6 independent links, can anyone suggest how I could achieve this.

Thanks again

Flash Gallery, Images Loaded Dynamically, Adding Links To Them?
Hello everybody,

I want to design a flash image gallery fetching an xml file, I can fetch xml, load images to flash however i can not make images clickable, I mean i can not access movie clip actions.

Here is my code:

Code:

for ( var i : Number = 0 ; i < items.length ; i ++ ) {
this.createEmptyMovieClip("img"+i, getNextHighestDepth());
this["img"+i].loadMovie(items[i].childNodes[0].firstChild);
setProperty("img"+i,_x,i*130);
setProperty("img"+i,_y,-97);
setProperty("img"+i,_name,"img"+i);

this[img+i].onRelease = function() {
getURL("http://");
};

}

I'm a newbie in this flashy things, Can you help me? I'm trying to put links on every image loaded into flash, each will link to other websites?

Can you also explain how i can put rollover styles to those images?

Thanks

Help With Using My Buttons As URL Links
Once again. I have a problem. I am using my buttons on the movie I made as URL links. So I took the movie I made into dream weaver, and I made the movie on a seperate frame. But now when I click on the buttons, it loads the URL into the same frame that the buttons were in. I need to know how to load my URL onto a different frame. Thanks a bunch for the help!

Buttons & Links
ok, here's my problem:
I need certain users (already authenticated) to have access to different areas of my movie. I either need to find out how to hide buttons, or redirect the main movie to a different scene from a sub clip. I have tried both methods, but can't work it out :-(

Buttons And Links?
Hi, I'm writing this because I have made some buttons for my web site's links and when ever I click on the animation (button), nothing happens! The page that's supposed to come up... Doesn't. I don't know if there are any special html tags I'm supposed to use or what. Please help me.

Buttons Links
is there a way to make a button link to an outside page?

Links For My Buttons
Under the Adablity button I am trying to link the about us to www.adability.com/about.htm and have it target the mainFrame.

Any ideas on how this can work?

Buttons And Links
I'm having a lot of trouble with the flash file included with my template. I'm using Flash 8 and it seems like I've tried everything. All I'd like to do is add links to the following.

Home - index.html
About Us - about.html
Forum - forum/index.php
Download - download.html
Roster - roster.html
Rules - rules.html
Ranks - ranks.html
Sponsors - sponsors.html
Frappr - frappr.html
Mail - http://mail.google.com/a/extremedeadlyforce.com/ (target: _blank)

If someone could please do this for me I'd be extremely happy. I've looked at many tutorials and videos, but everyone I've tried seemed to mess with the flash files rollover features. Here's the fla's and the fonts required...

fla and fonts.zip

Buttons Links From Xml
ok, I do have this:
xml file:
-----------------------

<productTypes>
<adsl>
<name>GO to</name>
<price>kr. 200,-</price>
<comment>text can go to a field</comment>
<image> </image>
<linkDetails>Client name</linkDetails>

<linkCart>http://link1</linkCart>
<linkDesign>http://link2</linkDesign>

</adsl>
</productTypes>

----------------------

AS:
............................
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
_root.linkDetails = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[5].firstChild.nodeValue;
_root.linkCart = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[6].firstChild.nodeValue;

linkDetails.text = _root.linkDetails;
linkCart.text = _root.linkCart;

} else {
trace("file not loaded!");
}
}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("liker.xml");

..........................

my problem is:

actually I dont need any description, just a identifier for the link (name) and the link itself.
how do I state more links? how do I make the xml just a list of links and names for the links?

AS on button:
------------------------------

on (release) {
getURL(_root.linkDetails);
}
-------------------------

but I need more buttons.

Using Links On Buttons
Trying to do something simple here. Just want to make my button launch a pdf file

<a href="AerobicsFlyer.pdf" target="_blank"> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="

Buttons Links
hey

i cant seem to add link to my buttons i created them in flash mx and they dont work

please help, im on a deadline

Buttons Links To Nowhere?
[issue solved]

XML Buttons With Links
Tell me if this would be possible, but I need to create a flash movie that would load an XML file and display its contents in button form. I need each entry in the XML to be a button with rollover animations, displaying the text in the XML file. When you click on this button I want it to open a link that is associated with the name in the XML file.

Is this at all possible?

The XML would go like this:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<weddings>
<event>
<name>Rachel & John</name>
<link>http://www.collages.net/store/guest_...x=26&Login.y=8</link>
</event>
<event>
<name>Nina & Tyler</name>
<link>http://www.collages.net/store/guest_....x=0&Login.y=0</link>
</event>
</weddings>
<portraits>
<event>
<name>Becky Evans</name>
<link>http://www.collages.net/store/guest_....x=0&Login.y=0</link>
</event>
<event>
<name>Austin Condiff</name>
<link>http://www.collages.net/store/guest_....x=0&Login.y=0</link>
</event>
</portraits>
<events>
<event>
<name>InvestLinc - Jackson</name>
<link>http://www.collages.net/store/guest_....x=0&Login.y=0</link>
</event>
<event>
<name>InvestLinc - Orlando</name>
<link>http://www.collages.net/store/guest_....x=0&Login.y=0</link>
</event>
</events>
</xml>
I am trying to get it so that my parents can manage their own photography website.

Right now I am managing it and changing the .fla file each time they want to upload a new event.

Go here and go to the 'proofs' section to see what i mean: http://www.condiffphotography.com/

But, if it is possible and if someone would be willing to help me, please let me know.

Thanks a lot!
Austin