HTML link to a Flash file frame

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Hi
I've got a client who has a HTML site on a laptop for a
presentation and
within this site he's wants a link that attaches to a AS2
.swf that I've
developed.
The thing is it he wants it to link to specific area of the
file and not to
play it all. How would I do this as he's just asked for the
specific address
of the area it needs to jump to.
Any help would be much appreciated bearing in mind my
ActionScript is pure
novice so a step by step would be handy.
thanks
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What do you mean about opening a flash file? Do you want the
.fla file
to open in flash? Or is it a swf that you imported into
Director? Or
is it an exe that was published from flash? Or a website that
was
created with Flash?
If you are opening a .exe and you know the path to it, then
you can use
Director's built-in open command
open the moviePath&"flashFile.exe"
for most other things, I would use BuddyAPI. To open an exe,
baRunProgram(). To open a fla or swf, baOpenFile.
To make Director open a swf on the stage, import it and
simply tell the
button to go to that frame.

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In Flash. There is no way to apply an HTML link to a swf
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>>>It's a big button file the size of the page? With
a link on it?
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and have them add the link
> >>there?
> Thats what I said too ... or meant to say ...
> open the parent .fla file, put in a button spanning the
entire width and
> height, button having only a "Hit Area" so its
transparent .... and so
> on..
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construed as making a
> flash
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>

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On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:49:45 +0000 (UTC), "staypressed"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> here is a page i have set up for testing:
>
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