Re: FLASH: Shouldn't this be real easy?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 02:00 PM 2/2/00 , you wrote:


>All I want to do is get my buttons to go to a URL upon mouseEvent release. 

>I am double clicking the

>instance of the button on the stage. The Instance Properties box comes up 

>and I add an action -  on

>mouseEvent - choosing release. Then I add another  action - get URL and 

>put my URL in the box at the

>side. I say OK. I export the movie - replacing the old one. The movie is 

>already set up in an html page

>so I re-load the page (not from the cache) And it does not work. I click 

>on the button in the browser

>and nothing happens.


be sure to specify the full path of the html file, starting with http://


Marc Hoffman


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