Help with Button Linking

Hello,
I was wondering how come you cant use a button to open a web
page.
I would use text but i like how buttons when rolled over
change.
If any one have any suggestions or another way, it would help
a lot of you could get me out of my jam!
Thanks,
Jimmy

Roddy-
Thanks a bunch for trying to help me out. Here is where I got the code from.
http://11mystics.com/2008/05/21/create-rounded-corner-rollover-buttons/
They also have some suggestions in the comments on how to add links.
Let me know what you think I should do. Keep the buttons i have or ditch it all together and use your code. What was nice about this is the images are already there for me and I just have to alter a few things to get what I want.
Thanks

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i'm new to flash but i have an idea whats going on with webpages. I need some help with buttons! i have a website and its has a stage and 9 different flv's (screens). I've been trying to read online and i can't find out how to navigate to different screens, example below
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I have Adobe Flash CS3 Pro.
I have a navigation header flash file that came with my website template and I am having difficulty making sense of the actionscript. It has a logo section with effects, 5 main nav buttons that move, and two extra link buttons above the navigation bar. Let’s focus on just the Navigation buttons for now. Here is what I have gathered. I have multiple text buttons on one movieclip, and I have successfully edited the text for each button. If I look at the actionscript in the top layer of this movieclip I see:
“gotoAndStop(parent._parent.num);”
I also have a separate movieclip symbol (with effects) with 5 buttons layers listed in the actionscript with the following actionscript tied to each button from numbers 1 through 5:
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Now my website template came with 5 html pages that my flash navigation buttons correspond to: (index.html, index-1.html, index-2.html, index-3.html, index-4.html, index-5.html). My problem is that I have created new pages (index.html, about.html, featured.html, projects.html, contact.html). I would like each of the 5 buttons to correspond to these pages, not the existing standard “index-n.html” pages.
Also, this is probably not relevant, but each html page has something to this affect so I can see how they correspond to each button.
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You need to duplicate each button you are editing - it is very important.
2) Update the scripting to look similar way:
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Also, I read through the following discussion, which was helpful to a degree, but it still didn’t answer my questions about getting the links to work.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3614092#3614092

First of all, thank you for showing interest and helping out in my dilemma here. I wish I understood your meaning behind “on” because with my luck there is probably some hidden way of placing script on an object that I don’t understand or haven’t discovered yet.
This is what I know:
I have multiple text buttons on one movieclip entitled “textbutton1” (see previous picture), and I have successfully edited the text for each button and created two extra frames/buttons to make 7 total. If I look at the actionscript in the top layer of this movieclip I see:
“gotoAndStop(parent._parent.num);”
But there is no action on each individual frame (all 7 of them) on that layer.
Like I mentioned before I have a separate movieclip symbol (entitled “menu effect”) with 7 button movieclip layers listed in the actionscript with the following actionscript on each layer.
onClipEvent (load) {
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onClipEvent (load) {
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onClipEvent (load) {
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onClipEvent (load) {
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onClipEvent (load) {
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onClipEvent (load) {
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I don't think what you want is going to be so easy. It isn't something you can set up in a snap. And buttons may not be what you want at all. Buttons serve rather simple functions. I think you are looking at Indexing, and some fairly complex indexing at that.
Now having said that, Return to Previous View does work (You do realize that these buttons only work in a PDF exported with Include Interactive Elements checked, right?), but you need something to get you to that next view in the first place. And I'm not sure how you can define that without indexing. Perhaps you could use anchored objects and Go to Anchor button, but I think the anchor would have to have something placed in it because it's found via the link in the object. Then a button in the appendix could be defined as Return to Previous View to get you back to the page you came from.
As you can see, this could get pretty messy. Indexing tends to move you around the book much more seamlessly. But it is also something that has to be meticulously set up after the book is completely laid out.
The InDesigner Podcast has a lesson on indexing as a request from one of his viewers. But in order to explain it he started with a lesson on Book Basics, then one on Table of Contents, Advanced TOC, Indexing, and finally Generating an Index. You can download the five podcasts from the InDesigner.com and watch them to get an idea of what's involved and how it may help in your situation.
Sorry, but even if someone here with more expertise than I in this matter comes to your aid, you still have quite a bit of learning ahead of you to pull this off.

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