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Making A Flash Animation Into Link
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Could someone tell me how to make a animation placed into Dreamweaver
clickable? I just need a simple link to another page but I canÂ¹t find where
to link anything in. Is it a parameter that I need to set up?

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How To Make A Link Out Of Flash Animation
This is probably basic but hey thats what this forum is for, and I can't find it in lessons.

[F8] Flash Websites.......Animation After Clicking A Link
Hey guys....

Im making my website but wanted the cool feature that when you click a link you can have the page do something before it goes to the next page... something like http://www.templatemonster.com/flash...tes/15800.html ...is the only way to do this by doing the animation for everpage for each link? or is there a easier way??

Thanks in advance,

Matt

OR does the technique have a name so i can look it up... cheers

How To Start A Flash Animation From An HTML Link?
Hi

I have imported a Flash animation into an ordinary HTML page - let's call it myflashproject.swf. So far so good.

I have disabled autoplay, because what I want to do is have an html link that says something like "Click here to play the animation". When that link is clicked, the myflashproject.swf file will start playing.

As a bonus, I would like the animation to stop when that link is clicked again. If that is not possible, then perhaps a diffent link to stop the animation.

Any help would be really appreciated. Pleae be aware that I am a scripting idiot and tend to use WYSIWYG tools most of the time.

Many thanks.

Making A Link Button From Flash Animation
how can i make my flash animation act as a link on a live site.

URGENT Can't Link Flash Animation To My Web Site After Mouse Click
Please help me !!
I'm a Flash beginner : I simply want that visitors can click on the flash animation which is on the homepage to visit the rest of the web site...
I've created a button but I can't set an action on it to realise this action. "On mouse click" is disable... Why ? What can I do ???
thanks !!!!!!!!

Stop Flash Animation When User Clicks HTML Link
Hi there,

I have a page that contains an SWF. Beneath this SWF are a series of links that open new _blank windows that also contain their own SWFs. What I would like to do is stop the first SWF when a user clicks on a link so that we don't have two SWFs playing at once (as it could get a bit noisy!).

So basically something included in the link that can control the SWF using Javascript would be great. I found some code that looks something like this (see below) but doesn't appear to work.

HTML Code:
<a href='javascript:example.TStopPlay("_level0/InstanceNameOfMC")'>Stop First Movie</a>
Any advice much appreciated

[F8] Flash Site, After Clicking A Link How Cn U Make An Animation B4 Goin 2 New Page?
Hey guys....

Im making my website but wanted the cool feature that when you click a link you can have the page do something before it goes to the next page... something like http://www.templatemonster.com/flas...ates/15800.html ...is the only way to do this by doing the animation for everpage for each link? or is there a easier way??

Thanks in advance,

Matt

OR does the technique have a name so i can look it up... cheers

Link Animation?
I am currently creating a menu with Flash MX 2004 Pro. I have the menu setup with its own animations that run continuously. I want to add menu items (links) and when you mouse over them they do an animation of their own. I only know how to make them do a single frame mouse over change. How would I go about making those menu items have their own seperate animation with more than 1 frame that wouldnt change anything but the menu item? Thanks for any help!

Link Animation
Ok I have read all other posts containing this but for some reason I cant figure this out... It Makes link "uFx Forums" go to every single button. Just trying to have do a _blank for my forums but why wont the animation work? ATM its just a movie with just the animation with no link... I just need the right code I suppose?

Link as is follows http://www.ufxproductions.com/main.html

Sorry for being such a noob

Swf-animation As Link
hi,

i have a simple question - how can i define a swf object implemented in a website as link.

thx
cu
w2k-user

Interface Animation After Link Is Hit?
i made a flash interface for my website. its pretty basic. it first slides down, then a piece of it slides across to the left to reveal my text which are buttons that link to various pages in the site. so i've got all that working, the final piece of it all i can't figure out how to do. i'd like, once the link is clicked, for the interface to close back up. so the piece that slid across to reveal the text would slide back across and then the whole interface would slide back up. with the links though, as soon as the button is clicked, it goes to that page immediately. how do i get it to play the final part of the animation after the button is clicked and then go to the appropriate page? thanks

Animation Before Link Works
Hi,

I have a site with links to the next page. However, some page-closing animations will play before you are taken off to the next page.

I have thought that having a delayed gotoAndStop(next page) might work which waits while the animation plays - is it possible to to execute actionscript after a certain amount of time has elapsed?

Alternatively, is there another way to do this which isn't quite as clumsy as creating a delay?

Thanks!

Button Link To Animation
I have a question. How do I link a button to an animated gif I have and then make that gif animate away, and the information I want is then displayed.

Is It Possible To Make Whole .swf Animation As A Link?
Well AFAIK it is not possible to simple use whole .swf animation as link and link it to any URL using href.

Is there any way to do so?

I want to link .swf animation to be linked to an external URL using <a href=".." > </a>

Tx in advance.

How Can I Make This Animation With E-mail Link
How can I do to make this animation with my e-mail link,
I like to have a link to my E-mail when the pointer go over the animation, before I uploaded to my web.
I'm not sure were to insert this:

1) (a href="mailto:your@email.com")(img src="image.gif")(/a)

2) (a href="mailto:yourname@yourserver.com" target="_blank")(img...)(/a)

And I'm not sure if #1 good or #2

when I do it the animation show a box out side with my e-mail link.

(!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN")
(HTML)(HEAD)
(META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1")
(META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=GENERATOR)
(STYLE)(/STYLE)
(/HEAD)
(BODY bgColor=#ffffff)
(DIV)(FONT face=Arial size=2)(IMG alt="" hspace=0
src="C:Documents and SettingsOwnerMy DocumentsTEST MHUnivisionMHfooter.gif"
align=baseline border=0)(/FONT)(/DIV)(/BODY)(/HTML)

[CS3] Howto: Add A Link Layer On Top Of An Animation?
Hi flashers,

I can make basic animations in flash, but have no clue about Action Scripting or anything interactive.
I hope posting here is ok, since it I think my question is about the scripting part.

I created a very simple fade in/fade out animation. Please have a quick look:
http://webjungle.com/redesign/animation/animation.html

What I want is link this animation to a .htm page.

It seems so simple, yet I couldn't figure it out, even after following the description of a video tutorial!! There must be a thinking mistake on my side.

Here is a screenshot of how the animation is set up in Flash:
http://webjungle.com/redesign/animation/animation.png

I have three layers, every logo on another layer.
I thought I add up an additional layer with a transparent shape (Alpha 0%, which I convert into a button, so I can add a link).

Now when I click on this button (named "link), and open the Actions tab, first of all it shows me "Actionscript 3.0" as default, and that I cannot use any action to the current selection.

Please see screenshot:
http://webjungle.com/redesign/animat...tionscript.png

As next step I changed the to "Actionscript 1.0 & 2.0" in the pulldown menu, but than the "getURL" command is INACTIVE!
See here:
http://webjungle.com/redesign/animat...ionscript2.png

To test, I went ahead and created a new file, in which I added one layer in which I put a square shape, converted it to a button, selected the button, opened "Actions", and the same: getURL is inactive.

This is the method that is explained in tutorials that explain how to add a link to a button.

What is my problem here?

Please help. I am going crazy soon.

Thank you :-)

Make Link Work At Beginning Of Animation?
I have an animation that is going to be the start page for a website. I wanted to add in a skip button that would allow the user to go right to the site. This is the code I used:

mainPage_btn.onRelease = function() {
getURL("hompage.html");
}

Now the the button doesn't work as a link until the animation is over, and I was wondering how I could make it work at the begining. I have a keyframe at the begining and end of the movie, and it doesnt matter whether its tweened or not, it still doesn't work until the end.

When I do a publish preview I get this error message:

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=skip, frame=255:Line 1: Statement must appear within on handler
mainPage_btn.onRelease = function() {

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

and I'm not sure whether that has something to do with it.

Any help at all would be great.

[F8] How Can I Link A Button To A Frame Or Animation In A Movie Clip
good morning fellas. first off thanks to dallasnyc for the help on my last problem. ok, so my issue is that i have a movie clip on the timeline. it plays a short animation. after that animation theres two optons, two buttons on the page user clicks one the animation disappears and another box shows up, same with second. im just not sure what to do from here. any help would be appreciated. i can post the project if neccasary. thank you

Flv Animation On Main Page/button Link To Pdf Problem
hello i have a page up at theprintcess.net and im having a problem. im trying to get the resume button to link to a pdf that i have uploaded. the link works but only after a while, as if it gets activated after waiting a bit. the other links on the page work right away, but they are part of the swf and not external links. HELP! thanks.

Script To Make Animation Play Before Going To Link On Button.
I am new to flash ad i need to make a website for comp class and i decided to use flash because i like it and i'm stuck doing buttons, i made a button called "Home" and basicly all it is
Up state = Shuriken and text HOME next to it
Ovr State = Shuriken spins at normal speed.
Dwn State = Shurkens spins faster and fly through the txt HOME.

I want the shuriken to fly through HOME then it goes to the next page, but i dont know exactly what actionscript i need to use. like could someone give me an example of it but use the Button "Home" and the movieclip instace name for the shuriken to spin and fly through is " Shuriken Ds". like where would i put the names in actionscript? Oh, sorry for one more thing, could someone break down the actionscript and explain what each means? sorry if thats asking too much.

Link An Animation To Html Files-absolutely Newbie
hi, i'm making an animation with motion tweens.
One graphic in a one layer. The desired results is a view of the products with three buttons, play, stop and back.

The problem is that is not possible make links to web in a mode graphic, it seems to convert to a button, but after this conversion still don't work.

anyone got any ideas?

any help - much apreciated

GREETINGS FROM EUROPE

Navigation: How Do I Show An Animation Leaving The Stage When A New Link Is Clicked?
I have 4 buttons on my stage. Each one is linked to a movie clip that slides into place when it's button is clicked. I'd like to show the previous movie clip sliding out when a new button is clicked, rather than it just suddenly disappearing when the new clip slides in.

How would I achieve this? Actionscript?

I hope I've explained it right.

Thanks!

Link To A Specific Frame Of A Flash Movie From An HTML Link
How do I link to a specific frame of a Flash movie from an HTML link?

Html Link And Flash Link On Intro Page
I've noticed that a lot of Flash sites have some kind of detector to see if you have the flash plug in. Is that scripting?
Plus, I see that the intro page of ones site will have an HTML and a FLASH option to choose from to enter the site. Would that be enabled in the publish settings of Flash 5? I am curious to know how that is done because I am designing this young lady's site and she wants the viewers to have the options of HTML or Flash.

Thanks!

Text Flash Link - Button Mouseover & Link
Hi - I'm a basic user of flash mx - I'm redevloping my design site. How do you make text links and how do you do mouseover scripts in flash MX.

Thanks for your help

Link From MySQL Database Then Displaying The Link In Flash 8
How do i create a link in a MySQL table and then how do i make that link display in flash 8? I've tried enabling html text but i don't know how to make the link display as an actual hyperlink?

Any Ideas.

My AS:
Code:

var theXML:XML = new XML();
theXML.ignoreWhite = true;
links_txt.html = true;
theXML.onLoad = function() {
var itemNodes = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for (i=0; i<itemNodes.length; i++) {
 var link = itemNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
 var desc = itemNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
 links_txt.text += link+"
"+desc+"

";
}
};
theXML.load("http://www.jacksrambles.com/links.php");

Flash - Css With Multiple Link Link/hover
Hi,

I am trying to use multiple hover styles in a flash app. Has anyone else tackled this?

Thanks,
John Glynn

Button Link Inside Movie Clip Link To Slide #
First let me say I am a very new to ActionScript and Flash, but have a pretty good understanding of the web and a basic understanding of object oriented scripts from CSS and a few other languages.

I have a navigation menu which is a movie clip containing buttons inside it and have a slide presentation as my main content. I am trying to make the buttons link to a specific slide # in a different part of my flash presentation.

You can see the page here: http://brhpc.ericlevay.com

The nav menu is a downloaded source and the slide show is the default canned one from the Flash templates directory.

I was hoping to use the gotoandStop (slide#) to make the connection between the nav button and the slide but it does not do anything.

I will provide the source if needed...

Thanks!

Anyone Have A Link On How To Create This Scrolling Film Clip? (see Link)
Please look at this thread at the bottom...they use quick time, I will use jpg/gifs...would love a walkthrough, or even a refernece on what book (FLASH MX BOOK), I could buy that illustrates this.

thanks all.

http://www.dvarchive.com/

/fe

Can Dynamic Text Have An Embedded Link? Or HTTP Link?
I'm using the Flash scroll bar componet, which uses dynamic text, and I want to link part of my dynamic text to a specific frame in my moive. - Is it possible?
- I've tried and it doesn't allow the 'Go TO' funcion.

so,

I created another HTML page and SWF to display the specific SWF screen that I want to show up - now I'm trying to link my dynamic text to '_self' so that when the link is clicked it will look like it is in the same site.

When I use the dynamic text and create the link, it appears to be ok/workable in the Properites panel, but when published, it doesn't work.

Hide Cursor When Over Text Link (TextEvent.LINK)
Hi there!

In my application, i have custom graphic cursor. I use Mouse.hide() 'onMouseMove' . There are some special cases though, when the default mouse cursor is still visible. Like for example when:
(1) rolling over an input texfield
(2) rolling over a link: <a event:blabla>link</a>
..in html-formatted textField.

The latter is worst. Is there a way to hide the default mouse cursor in these cases? I haven't found any so far..

Cheers!

Best Way Creat List Of Link & Update New Link Freq
I'm looking for the a way to make a list of Links & Text so that I can

easy update these links? Update using txt file or xml .

Any suggestion or tutorial ? thanks

[MX04] Open A New Link In Html By Clicking Button In Flash (no Code In Flash).
Hi,

I'm facing problem while opening a new html window by clicking button created in flash.

For this i don't want to write single code in flash but want to handle this through the html only.

For this I have used <embed> tag to add swf file in html. but could not add click code in HTML on that button.

Could any one help me out?

Need Urgent Help How To Combine Transition Class Tween Animation And Keyframe Animation?
Hi! I have a transitional tween class animation assigned to "mc_logo" on frame 1. However on frame 100, I have "mc_logo" animated on the timeline by regular keyframe animation.
I have assigned the tween class animation to "mc_logo" on frame 1 and the regular timeline animation starting on frame 100 does not execute now when I test the movie...why?

Do I need to end/clear the tween class animation so the regular timeline animation will work again?

Here is the code on frame 1 so far:

import mx.transitions.*;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
import flash.filters.*;
var LogoTweenY:Tween = new Tween(mc_logo, "_y", Bounce.easeOut, -120, 171, 30, false);

Thank you in advance for your help.
Attila

Message: For Flash Beginners, Link For Optimising Flash Movie
I'm posting this link in this forum coz i've seen many people asking similar question about making a lightweight Flash movie, when to insert images etc. The following link will act as a reference for such questions:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/f...sability/tips/

Creating A Flash Rollover Link From XML Output - Flash Noob
So pretty much brand new to Flash, I wanted to see if somebody could point me in the right direction.

I have an XML file that uses a loop to output four images... the images form 1 column.

I have an additional image for each of those that need to appear when hovering over the image and stays loaded when clicked to be clear what page you're on.

I think I'm more confused because I don't actually get to play with each image on stage and their being input dynamically.

Any suggestions or help is appreciated.

OnMouseOut{freeze Button Animation, Reverse Animation Back To..}
This is my question in an action script "perspective", since i dont wanna spend the time typing this question out in plain english..

How would i implement this effect into a button I made that contains a MovieClip as the over state? ::

onMouseOut{
stop button's Over animation on current showing/playing frame;
then reverse animation back to start
OR
fade out current showing/playing Over animation frame, back to the button's load state (not over)
};

Playing A New Intro Animation On Release During The Previous Outro Animation?
I know about external swfs and having intros and outros, but I want my intros and outros to overlap...

for example, I want a background that's red and rotates when you click button 1, but I want to it rotate and change yellow when I click button 2, or rotate and change green when I click button 3...

I don't want it to rotate than fade to black and finish before the next animation has started, cause otherwise I don't get the smooth colour change from red to yellow, rather it's red to black than yellow...any tutorials that can help me?

thanks...it's hard to explain

Simulating Hieracical Animation Tween Mixed With Timeline Animation..
The theory was that I animate my clip say across the stage using frames in the main timeline. So this animates fine, but when I use the Tween class inside this clip the timeline animation is destroyed! the tween class for the clip was just doing some animation repeating, like as if it was the clips own timeline...this overpowers the parent animation and the slide across the stage doesnt happen...

why? and is there a solution more importantly.

Link Layers? Link Timeline Layer?
Ive been struggling for what seems like forever to figure this out. Is there any way to link layers together, so, when you move one, they all move? also, is there a way to link a layer timeline? so when you move one object, it moves all objects on that same layer timeline? possible way to move everything at once?

Thanks!

Dynamically Loading Link Text And Link
I need some code or reference for Dynamically Loading Link Text and Link from an external .txt file. The number of links could be any depending upon the changes made in the text file.

How do I go about it???????

Link To Flash Installer As Opposed To Flash Page OK?
I noticed this site seems to be linking directly to the flash installer at Macromedia's site if you do not have flash installed. That is nice since you don't get thrown over to macromedias site. Is this the way to do it? It used to be macromedia suggested going to their flash install page instead and they kept moving the link to the running the installer. At least I got caught a couple of times releasing a flash product that linked directly to the installer, only to get a 404 just after I released it for those that didn't have flash yet.

(I also noticed with this technique that it is often not mentioned that the install is taking place, so for a lower bandwidth customer they just sit there wondering why the page isn't loading when they are actually waiting for flash to install, but that's just a random observation and has nothing to do with my question.)

Play/Pause For Animation/Nested Animation And Sound
Hello and Goodmorning, afternoon or evening.

I am relatively new to actionscripting and have come upon a problem I'm sure is probably easy but for some reason I can't make it work.

Basically I have a presentation that plays several voice over sequences that match up with accompanying animations which are mostly movie symbols that house the animation sequences. Well now the client wants to put a pause/play button on the presentation and I haven't been able to make it work... I put in stops but the movie symbols still play out the sequence and the voice over starts over... not sure what to do... HELP!... and thanks ahead of time.

Raul.

Help Linking Hit Detection To Animation In A Game (death Animation)
Hi everyone - I've just been experimenting with creating games in flash MX 04 and I've come across a problem that's had me stuck for a few hours now. I have just about everything working in my practice game, except when my character gets hit with the projectile... it won't go to the death movieClip that's located in the character's main movie clip (on frame 6 of it).

If anyone could check out the project file and let me know what i'm doing wrong it'd be greatly appreciated. The controls for the game are just the arrow keys to move the character, and down ducks - avoiding the projectile.

Thanks

Stopping Animation From Playing Before Another Animation Has Finished (On Keypress)
Hi guys

I've linked to the project I'm current working on; essentially, what it does is play a ripple animation at specific points on the stage when certain keys are pressed. What I'm trying to do at the moment is stop people from hammering one key many times, and creating several instances of a ripple in one location. As well as looking strange, it also slows down Flash considerably ;-)

I'm not really sure where to start, but what I'm thinking of would work as follows: -

Person pushes 'Q', and a ripple is triggered at the coordinates relative to that key. If they press 'Q' again, it is impossible to trigger another ripple at that location until the current ripple animation has finished. The same is true with all of the other keys (Q, E, S, Z, C, Up, Down, Left Right) when pressed.

However, it should still be possible to trigger ripples at the same time with different keys. For example, someone could press three different keys at the same time, and see three different ripples which play at the same time and overlap, etc.

Hope that's clear enough - if anyone could help me out with this, it would be most appreciated.

- Thanks!

http://www.joshbarton.co.uk/flash/Ripple_Project.fla

Trouble Adding Animation To Existing Rollover Animation
Hey all,

I'm using Flash 8. I have a picture of a building which is segmented into floors. Upon rolling over a grouping of floors the user sees either a blue overlay, indicating they can click, or a gray overlay simply describing what the floor is. I already have some actionscript in place and I don't need to alter it, I just added more animation to an existing movieclip rollover, but it's not quite working. On one of the floors that rolls-over gray, I want an additional rollover with some text. So I made a movie clip of the rollover animating out and the type coming in and I just added it to the gray fade in movie clip since there was already onRollover actionscript in place there. However, the rollover kept playing over and over again. So, of course I added a Stop action. Then, the animation didn't work anymore, it just rolled over to the final state of that animation. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do, or what I can do as an alternative? I'll post the actionscript in case that helps. Like I said, the rollover "rolls-over" but either loops (without a Stop action), or rolls over to the final frame in the animation (with a Stop action).

Thanks!
Mc