Buttons and ActionScript Code

Question

Hi everyone just signed up to this forum today, really need help, would appreciate your help.
Basically I have created 5 buttons on one single layer. I am now trying to link each button to a website, but to no success as of yet.
I realised that maybe in order to make it easier for myself I need to put each button in its own layer and insert the following actionscript code I've inserted for one of my buttons:
stop()
home_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseClick);
function mouseClick(event:MouseEvent):void
var request = new URLRequest("http://www.sign-technologies.net/");
navigateToURL(request,"_blank");
This code links my first button "home_btn" to my site, which is still underconstruction. When I run it in flash it works, but when I click the button in the actual web browser it will not go to the webpage, so I'm stuck.
Another question: For convience sake is there a way I can have all the buttons in one layer, but insert code that can seperate one button from the other? Anyone have that code?

Answer 1

You can place all of your buttons in one layer and all of your code preferably in another layer.  What you will need to do is have differently named functions for each button.  You can not name them all "mouseClick"... I'll suggest you name the function in relation to the button, as in....
home_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, homeClick);
function homeClick(event:MouseEvent):void
     var request = new URLRequest("http://www.sign-technologies.net/");
     navigateToURL(request,"_blank");
As far as the file not working when testing in a browser, it should.  There is nothing wrong with the code.
There are other ways of coding where you can have the same function shared by all the buttons, but that might be a better lesson for another day.