Click Through URL - Need Help !

Question

Hi All,
I'm a rookie doing ads but have used CS3 and have created a
pretty decent ad for my company. The only probelm left to nail down
is that I can't seem to create a click trough to a URL?
I simply want the whole moving ad which includes about 20
scenes to click to the URL of our website. I know that this is most
likely easy for many of you here but I can't seem to figure it out
being new to CS3 and flash (VB Developer mostly). If someone could
give me a few Step-By-Steps how to do this in CS3 I would be very
grateful as I am at a total loss.
Thanks.....Mike

Answer 1

Draw a square the exact size of your Stage (the document) and
then select the square. Press F8 and when the dialog box pops up
with the various options, just select Button, and hit OK.
Then double click your new Button Symbol, and there will be
one frame solid, out of four total frames. DRAG that single solid
grey frame to the last frame labelled "Hit" (
Note: Make sure the other three frames in your button symbol
besides Hit are
empty.) Then exit the symbol by double clicking outside your
stage in the grey.
Once your outside your button, select the symbol, but don't
go "inside" it. Press F9 once you have the button symbol selected,
and it will open the Actions panel. You'll be writing basic
Actionscript (make sure your document is set to Actionscript 2 by
going into Publish Settings). Put the attached code into the
actions panel, just replace my fake URL address with your companies
URL.
To recap: You made a "hit" button, which is basically nothing
but a mouse detection hit, the opaque blue you see won't appear
visually once you preview your flash movie. You then applied the
getURL actionscript to the button. In the actionscript you'll
notice "_self". That means when they click it loads the new URL in
their
current page. If you have this ad on another person's
website, you might want to change it to "_blank" so that when
someone clicks, it opens a
new window with the target URL.
If you have any trouble let me know, and remember to put your
button symbol on a frame in each scene, just note that if you have
any other buttons in your flash movie, they will be overwritten by
the hit you created above (unless you put the "hit" button symbol
you created above, on a lower layer than your other
buttons).