Linking an entire Flash Movie

to a certain website

[brett2_UMBC]

Hello. I'm not too new but am not that experienced. I'm new to Macromedia Flash and am using the MX version (6.0 I believe). What I want to do is to link the entire movie to a website. Essentialy, if they watch the movie and then later want to click the link, I don't want them to wait for 45 seconds before they can even go. My flash movie is online at:

<snip - no urls please>

I want it to pop up in a new window. I know that I could call functions like "onClick="getURL()"" or something like that. So far that hasn't worked at all. Any and all help would be appreciated. If you want to IM me, my AIM SN is EMT1182. Thanks.

[edited by: oilman at 8:00 pm (utc) on April 8, 2003]

[korkus2000]

Welcome to the board brett2_UMBC,

So do you want to have a skip link during the entire movie? Do you want the whole movie to be clickable? I am not sure I understand what the pop-up does. Can you explain a little more?

[brett2_UMBC]

Sorry for the ambiguity there. I want the entire movie to be clickable. It's like it's an advertisement but not. It will act like one so that at any point in time it is clicked it will pop a new window and go to a URL, the URL being: [nytimes.com...]
Thanks for the help.

[SethCall]

make a 100% transparent button over your movie on the top most layer. Make the layer, on(press), act as a html link.

[brett2_UMBC]

Okay, I can add the button and add an Action:

Objects --> Movie --> Button --> Events --> onPress

The function comes out to be <not set yet>.onPress = function () {
};
In the function () I add my link: [nytimes.com...]
Essentially, the whole function looks like:

<not set yet>.onPress = function (getURL="http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/091101rescuers.html") {
};

Two questions still remain for me:
1) how do I make the button 100% transparent
2) the <not set yet>, what is it? The object name or something else?

Thanks for the help.