Banner/Button Ad Problem...Please Help...Going NUTS!

Question

Hi I was wondering if I could get some help here...I work at
a company who's headquarters have an extremely old, outdated banner
rotator system. We recently added designing Flash button and banner
ads into our lineup of advertising strategies. After sending a few
files to headquarters, we were notified that the URL to the
advertiser's site needs to be embedded within the Flash file. No
problem, usually...I started out by making a transparent button
with only the "hit" stage having a keyframe (the others being
blank). This layer masks the entire ad so at any given time, a user
can click through to the desired site. I defined the URL using
on (release) {
getURL("
http://www.yourwebsite.com","_blank");
worked without a problem and clicked through to the site when
testing in Flash Player. I later got word from headquarters that
the click-thru wasn't working - no pointer icon upon rollover or
anything. After previous experiences like this with some other
banner rotator companies, I figured maybe they weren't compatible
with actionscript 3 yet so I exported the file using actionscript 2
compatibility and on that round, they said they got the pointer
icon upon rollover, but the click-thru still wasn't working. One of
their techs received the native flash file via email from me and
said the only thing that was wrong was that the button layer was on
the bottom layer and should have been on the top. After a new file
was sent with that adjustment (and nothing else!), they STILL said
it wasn't working!Meanwhile, I created these fully functional
buttons within a blank flash file, 1 layer, with just the button in
the library in hopes I could use it as a type of template file,
where I could complete the Flash ad and simply drag that button
into my library, posting it as a layer at the top. It seems like it
works standalone just fine, but every time I try to merge it into
the library on an already existing Flash file, I get the pointer
icon but a compiler message saying 1087: Syntax error: extra
characters found after end of program. Seems the only way this is
working so far is to re-create the existing Flash files. Does
anyone have any advice as to how I can get this working? I do have
the native flash files I can email if need be. We're all thinking
that there's just nobody at the banner rotator company that can
properly tell us how they need their files. Keep in mind that the
trouble doesn't start until they are uploaded into their
rotator...flash player and the swf on a blank html page uploaded to
my server both work without a problem. I almost dropped dead when
they told me this afternoon that they are currently utilizing Flash
2004 and can't work with anything else. HELP!

Answer 1

The code that you're showing should work just fine. Just
publish the file as Flash player 6 or 7, it should work.