Linking flash buttons

Question

I am new to this. I have followed several tutorials with no
luck. I am using action code 3. I want to link an invisible button
to an url. I placed the code in the layer with the button. The
following code I have used, but then follows the error message. I
can't figure it out. Thanks.
1180: Call to a possibly undefined method on.
1120: Access of undefined property release.
1180: Call to a possibly undefined method getURL.

Answer 1

How are you making the invisible button? I'm assuming it's
not a button component, but rather one you authored in Flash. Your
options then would be to use a simple button or a MovieClip as a
button.
In either case you are going to have to do this:
1. Give your button an instance name. For this example I'll
use my_btn
2. On a frame on the main timeline where your button is
created, add this:
import flash.events.Event
my_btn.addEventListener(Event.CLICK, handleClick)
function handleClick(e:Event):void
// code you want to execute once the button is clicked
getURL("
http://www.google.com");
That should do it.
Don't put code in the button, put it on the main timeline
(the best thing would be to use a document class or some other code
outside Flash, but that would take to long to explain and this way
will work).