Flash :: Simple Question...linking Pages

Linking Within Pages, Please Help Me
hello, im working on this site and my buttons along the sidebar work. my buttons IN the content pages, however, do not work.

here is the code for a button along the sidebar

Code:
order.onPress = function() {
content.gotoAndStop("order")
}

here is the code for a button On the "order" frame, meant to function to go to the "sizing" frame within the same "content" MC.

Code:
sizebutton.onPress = function() {
content.gotoAndStop("sizing")
}

Both these codes are on the same actionscript sheet, on the "script" layer above my "content" layer. i've tried moving the codes for "sizebutton" inside the "content" MC to the button itself, or to the "order" frame, but that still doesn't work. can anybody help me?

[CS3] Linking Pages
hi, i had this problem for a while with adding some sort of link to a button i created on flash so when i click it, it will go to an html file on my computer.
i want it to work so when i add .swf button to dreamweaver and i test it out there it will go to the certain html file without opening a new window
i know that i have to put in an <a href code in the actionscript to do so but it doesn't work. could someone help me create a text that i can put in the action script so the button will work

Linking To Pages?
There's probably a really simple way to make a link but I haven't yet found it....
If someone could help me out that would be great.

Linking Pages
I am a fairly new user to flash and this may seem like a basic question but I can not figure it out! I am creating a site in dreamweaver. Each dreamweaver page has some flash content. In the flash content I would like to link the flash buttons to a different page in my dreamweaver site. I understand how to link the flash button to another Http site, but since my dreamweaver site is not on the internet (yet) it is only on my hard drive, how to I write the action scrip to "point" the flash button to the correct dreamweaver page? Please help.

How Is This Linking Other Pages...?
hi all!
i have a question in regards to this tutorial:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full_site.htm

how are the pages being linked to the swf file?
i understand the script upon button release but where exactly are the pages standing by to be loaded???
are they in mc's or what?

thanks!

Linking Pages
I am having trouble figuring out how to link one page I built in flash to another.

each page has its own buttons but where do you tell flash what page to go to in your folder when you click the button?

I know this is really simple but I am used to working in
dreamweaver where you have a url box that you click on and then nav to the proper page you want the button to go to.

is all this done in actionscript and if so what is the code for it?

it cant be this hard. it should be a simple function.

I have tried using this code but I am not sure where to put it or how to modify it to my needs.

on (release){
getURL(â€http://www.something.com/â€);
}

I tried changing the "something" to the root directory where my pages are stored
on (release){
getURL(â€C:/folder/folder/filenameâ€);
}

that didn't work so I am stumped

Linking Pages
I am a beginner in flash, i am sure it's simple, but how do i link one page to a next, (e.g.) i have a cover page, with buttons saying "profile" resume and portfolio, and when you press profile button it takes you direct to the profile page e.t.c. i am doing a interactive cd with my profile cv & portfolio any help will be appreciated
thank you
q

Pls Help Linking On Single Pages?
ok, im kinda new and not entirely sure how to put what i want...
up until now i have been creating individual pages to link together for my site but have been looking at some beetter sites like http://www.ckc-clan.co.uk/xl/ .Pls take a look, it may clear up what i need
I take it this is all one page created on flash as opposed to multiple pages seemlessly linked. How does this work? What are the targets for the links etc? If anyone can nail down what it is that I am after maybe there is a tutorial I can look at or something...
Im sorry I can't be more specific but I hope you have got the gist of what i am after, incoherent slobbering fool that i am :P

Thx for ur time
Lev

Linking Buttons To Web Pages
Hello all...

I am trying to make a small web page using Flash 5. Since the .fla file size was getting a bit too big I tried to break it into 5 different files, one for each of the pages of that site (don´t know if that was the best way to go around the problem but...)

So know what happens is this: I have to link all the different pages I have, through some navigation buttons I´ve put in. What I thought I would have to do was something like... GET URL and then point out the location of the HTML file (created when you publish the .fla files) but somehow that doesn´t work when I test it on my computer. I always get some error message, like the location does not exist, or something... (maybe that is not the way this is done or maybe it is just me doing it wrong)

anyway... I was hoping someone would tell me if what I´m trying to do can be done (I think so but...) and what is the best way to so.

I hope that was clear enough...
and thank you!

Linking Flash Pages
Hi, Im VERY New At Swish, And I Would Like To Know How To Link Pages, but not to another webpage.... Errr this is hard to put into words so bare with me!
heres a example: http://www.renegademods.tk when you click on downloads, instead of going to another webpage it clears and brings up a menu. how do you crate a swish animation like that?

(if you understand that WELL DONE =) )

Linking Pages Into Flash
Hello,

I know this is probably Flash MX 101, but thats the level I am in at the moment. I am just starting Flash and was curious, if I have say 6 buttons, do I create each page in a seperate Flash stage and then link them using the url action script? Since I am not loading them individually onto a website, is my url just going to be for example like you would do in HTML?

I want my whole beginners website to be done in Flash MX.

Also, to keep the same template, is it a matter of copy frames and then just paste on a new stage?

Thank you

Thorrax

Linking To Other Flash Pages
Hi,

Im (completely) new to Flash - I have a template which ive managed to modify, i need to link the main (index) page to the other flash pages.

Ive managed to link one of the pages but all of my buttons open the same page!!

when i try to add the loadmovie cmmd in the action box all the cmmds are greyed out if i try to individually select the buttons on the main page(blue line around each one)...if all buttons are selected (blue line around them all) i can add the action but then all the buttons perform the same action!

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,

Andy.

Problem Linking To Pages
I'm using Flash MX and Dreamweaver MX. I'm creating a site with frames. I have a flash menu in the left frame and the main frame displays the page that the user selected from the menu. 4 of the 5 linked pages are in the same directory as the menu and load normally when clicked. I'm using document-relative addressing because I'm not sure where this site will be uploaded (my school's going to decide this). However, the fifth link takes the user to an EZBoard forum. When I click the link to go to this forum, it loads in the main frame, but the links to the other pages no longer work because they are no longer relative to the current document (the forum). Does anyone know how i can have the links relative to the menu at all times?

I would really appreciate it if someone could help me with this. I was reading something about root-relative linking, if that could help.

Thanks alot.

Linking Pages Question
#1 is it better to load files externaly like below

for example

i got www.mysite/homepage.html user clicks information
goes to another page. www.mysite/information.html

#2 OR is it better to load internally by like using flash movie clips

like on(press) load.Movie ("myhomepage.swf");

which is better?

and how do you do the second one...if you were to accomplish this feat

Help - Buttons Linking To Pages
I am a (casual) Flash MX user who is constructing his site in Macromedia Dreamweaver with Flash components. I have made the navigation bar in Flash and would like to know how to make buttons link to pages on the site. I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!
-Sb

Linking Pages In Flash...
What’s up everyone…?

I’ve created two documents in Flash, one for the home page and the second is a flash (photo gallery). At the home page I wanted to create a button that links to the photo gallery and I’m not sure how to do so.

Any thoughts…??

Linking URL's To New Pages Within A Template
New to using flash templates, I am trying to link my template to a seperate page located in the html directory (about page - using static text linking to a URL But I keep getting an error - "http page not found". I've been around the mullbery bush on this thing a 100+ times and now begging for help.
This is how I inserted the URL address http://www.mysite.com/about.html Could it be how I have my files located on the server? or is it somet thing different?

PS. God Bless all you experts out there, that take time for us newbies.

Thanks

Linking Pages With Flash 8
Greetings all,
I am putting a website together using flash 8 which I think is easier than previous versions of Flash. I am very new to actionscript but I learning pritty fast. I'am use to FrontPage and DreamWeaver but can somone tell me how to link pages in Flash using buttons i've created in Flash? I missing something in the tutorials. I would appreciate it.

Linking Sliding Pages
hi guys,
hoping that i can spend some time on here in the future to learn and eventually help people with problems that happen as for now would it be possible to send someone a file that i'm working on to see if they can tell me where i'm going wrong... would be much appreciated...

thanks in advance

B

Linking Pages & Windows.
I have created 10 SWF files as different pages to my (first) Flash CS3 website. How do I link these files together using buttons & when the buttons are pressed how do I make the pages open in the same window?

Linking To Acrobat Pages
I need to make a hyper link to jpegs, and while this is easy enough, the images are already in a PDF doc. I would love to not have to go page by page and save them out as jpegs. Is it possible to link a hyper link to a specific page in a specific PDF ?
-Thanks

Linking Flash-pages
Hi there!
I am trying to link two .swf's together ... I use the

onClipEvent (load) {
on (release) {
_root.contents.loadMovie("lena.swf");
}
}

...script from a button and it dosent do anything!
Please help!

Linking To Html Pages
This may be no-brainer, but it is driving me crazy. How to a get a flash button, used within a html page, to link to another html page without opening a whole new page?

Your comments are much appreciated.

-jtbrockmeyer

Linking Pages With This.onLoad...?
this.onLoad = function(){
_root.emptyMC.loadMovie("button index.swf");
}

hi all!
above is my script on frame 1. i have the swf file "button index" in the same folder as the one whose page this is.

when i check the operation and linking on my computer it works just fine...when i upload the files to my domain the pages open but the button index linking doesn't happen.
does anyone have a suggestion or know where i should start to look???

thanks!

Separate HTMl Pages And Linking
I have a flash movie that has been broken into 8 separate .swfs, and each published as it's on Html page. Is there a way to link from one to the other, but have the link not just go the the beggining of the next .swf (just by the Html. name) but to a marker in the next .swf?
My client wants the movie broken up like this. Most scenes have atleast 15 markers for different content. So far, I have been pasting in the scenes from the other pages according to what its supposed to link to, into the scene with the link.This works alright, but it's increasing the file size for this movie,plus,since I'm not pasting the entire other .swf in, it makes navigation into the pasted scene useless, as I'm only pasting in a portion? Help,please, and better way to link would be appreciated.

Linking Buttins 2 Server Pages
I am building a site, but I can not get the buttons to link with the pages that I have uploaded to my server. When I click on the buttons they take me to a error message saying that the page can not be found.

But, if i type in www.ibmagazine.com/contacts.html it comes up.

What am I doing wrong?

[url]http://www.ibmagazine.com

www.ibmagazine.com

Thanks

Ren

Diff Ways Of Linking Pages
hello, i'm sorry about all the help i been asking for lately. this should be my last post in a long time. i figured out a lot of things with the help of caramella.

making a flash site, right? ok, so it looks like this:

i can get it to where when you roll your mouse on those circles, the text lights up. where i need some advice is how to get to another page. should i open the page up in a new window with html? should i use the method on the tutorial at kirupa.com which loads a separate swf into the main movie? should i just use scenes?

i plan on making all that stuff disappear then re-appear with different content on it (i know it's cheesy but it's all i know how to do right now), but i just don't know what method to use to link my pages. i've tried the separate swf files, but it's hard to make tons of transitions and for some reason, my link rollovers don't work after you get to another page and back to the main.. you know what i'm saying? i just want it to have one code that makes it disappear then one code that will load up the page depending on what button was clicked, im having a feeling that requires a bunch of actionscript.

any ideas at all? thanks

Linking With Static Html Pages
I have built a nice tabbed menu that I would like to use on my site but I would like it to call static html pages. Is there a way to do this with actionscript using tagets etc.? I would like to avoid using frames but I would also like it to work simular to how frames work. I would like to have the menu on the top of the page and have static html pages that have already been made display in the body of the page.

I hope this makes sense.

Linking Scenes To Create Web Pages
I'm currently using Flash MX 2004.

I'm required to create a website entirely in flash. I'm a flash newbie. I'm not sure once I've created the scenes how to link them together using the buttons. I could really use some help with this.

Thank you in advance.

Linking Pages Help...on(press) Load ?
Im having trouble putting in code to link pages in my site.
how do i put in the code to link a button to another page ?

for example the button ( items ) to link to the items page.

what would the code be ?
im using this

on(press)loadMovie.("items.swf");
stop();

I seen code like this..right here

Page.loadMovie("items.swf");
stop();

* what does [page] mean ? do i need to put page in the code ?

im using flash mx 2004.

thanks for the help...

Linking Individual HTML Pages
I have been making an interactive CD ROM and I have been told I have started it wrong. Instead of making a base document and layering the pages on top, I have been making each page as an individual HTML document. Is there a way of linking these documents together, Thanks

[MX04] Linking External Web Pages
If this was posted before, i am sorry, the search functionallity sucks. I want to make a text link to a web page in my flash document, how would i go about doing that?

Trouble Linking Pages In Website
Hi i'm having trouble linking pages together in my flash site. before i started on the site i did a few tests where i linked pages together using labels and it worked fine but its not working in my actual site and didn't know why.

And does anyone know a way i can up load the fla to the intenet so you guys can look at it becasue it would probably be easier to fix if you actually saw the file. thanks

Help With Linking Pages Inside Flash?
So I have this Template I'm using to learn Flash. I have read numerous books and watched some tutorials.

One thing just can't seem to figure out is how to Link pages (in the case the pages {home, contact, bio etc} are movie clips. In which all you have to do is open the movie clip from the library, customize it and save it and your good to go.

I would love to understand whats going on in this situation. I understand to a point what the action script is doing pertaining to call up the movie clips.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is, How would I go about making more pages with flash. I have the main menu bar with 5 menus linked to 5 different pages. I want to ad a 6th 7th or 8th page. I would love to ad a link within one of the pages to one ofd the new pages. For example:

Menu choices:
Home
Bio
Contact

I would love to figure out how to make say a "Discography" and have a link from the bio page.

I noticed that all the pages are that are in the document now are all on the timline in the same layer. In the actionsript code the pages are labeled "1" for home "2" for bio etc etc. and they show up on the timline in the same order.

I was thinking if I could extend the timeline, save one of the movie clips as a different name ex"4" and place it inside the timeline after the last clip, then I could copy the actionscript for page 3 and change the varible to "4" to match the new movie clip. It did work but my problem is that the timeline ends. So I would have to figure out how to extend the timline but I really don't understand what ALL the other layers and animation are doing and still have not been able to get it to work. I did extend the timline, ad movie clips but when I change the variable to the next "5" it goes to the first page instead of the 5th.

I hope this makes some sence to someone, I know its really long, if someone could maybe point me to a tutorial about making pages inside a flash document using movieclips or if you actually understand my jibberish I would owe you the world

thanks for reading!!!

I could send you the flash source files if need be, so you could look at what I'm doing and how its set up, I had to buy the template, but I'm willing to give someone a copy for the help, like I said I just bought some random template thinking I could pick it apart and learn more about flash

Linking Pages In Flash Website[CS3]
I've created 6 page website, they are all on separate swf, but I don't know how to link them together, so there will be a back link on the website.
Any ideas?
Thank you.

Linking To Flash From Static Web Pages
How do I link from a static html page back to a point in Flash other than the startup? Flash generates a "home" html page that tells flash to play from the beginning but how to a link to a certain event in the Flash movie?

Regards,

Mike

Linking Pages For A Flash Site
I am very new to flash but have been using dream weaver for a while. I assumed they would be almost the same or at the least have a lot of the same basic web functions being they are from the same company but I have found that sadly such is not the case.
In dreamweaver when you have turned text or image into a button you are given the ability to simply navigate to the folder where the other web pages are stored. those locations are copied into your web server when you upload. You also have the ability to test the site and make sure that when you click on a button you are taken to where you intend the link to go.
In flash however I have not been able to find such a function so that when I make an image or text linkable I can navigate to the proper page. Is there a way to do this that I have not as yet found or is what I assume the case? That everything link wise must be done in action script?
I have found many examples of the OnReleace get Url code but when I try and plug that into my "linkable" and then test it, it does not work. When I type in the folder path like "c:folderfolderfilename" after the geturl it either does nothing or I get the inevitble action script error message.
This can not be this hard. Can someone help make any since of this at all?

Simple Question...linking Pages

yah i'm making a full flash website... how do i link the pages?