FLASH CC AS3 CLICK TAG

Hi,
I recently switched over to Adobe cc, the flash no longer supports AS2 click tag codes. Is there a universal as3 click tag code I can drop into my actions and just rename my instance? I have googled and found a few items, but they are somewhat old and I am not confident they will work (I ran a few through a validator and there were errors). Any advice is appreciated.

If they require you to use the AS2 code, then you can't use your AS3 code. If you can use your AS3 code, then you just need to replace the url with the clickTag variable...
myViewPackagesBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,goSite1);
function goSite1(evt:MouseEvent):void{
navigateToURL(new URLRequest(clickTag), "_blank");
To get the clickTag variable assigned you'll probably need to look into using FlashVars. The clickTag value is usually assigned as part of the html code for embedding the swf in the web page. That allows whoever to change the link via the html code rather than having to edit the swf file. You may want to check with whoever is writing the rules for this.

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From:
PJSB_DK <[email protected]>
To:
Alan Fiterman <[email protected]>
Date:
08/19/2010 02:54 PM
Subject:
Flash Crashes on clicking import to stage
Hi
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Best regards
Peter

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