Linking SWF files

Hello,
I made a flash button for my web site which I am making in
Dreamweaver. I am trying to make the button have a link however
when I try and select the button in Flash it says that this
selection can not have action script added to it.
When I test the button everything works fine except for the
actual link. I have tried everything to give that button a link
both within Flash and Dreamweaver and nothing will work.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Bernie

you can't attach code to a true button (and you shouldn't
attach code to a movieclip).
give your button an instance name and use that name to assign
a mouse handler. for example:

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Linking .swf file to Dreamweaver

Thank you soooooooo much it worked smoothly and the way I
want .
Cheers

not sure of the total scope of what you are trying to do or
have done so
far...
instead of linking to the .swf file, link to an html page
with the .swf
placed IN it.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

Continued/ linking .swf file to Dreamweaver

Hi ,
All I need is to link my swf file to a link in my HTML page,
the swf file has its own control buttons created in Captivate that
I need them to be shown in the swf file ratherthan new ones! and I
need all this to be shown as a smaller window in the middle of the
screen where the user can maximise and minimise the way he wants?
so
I have linked my link to HTML ( which is called Harmony.htm)
file atht has the published .swf file in it but I have these
problems:-
1- Once I click on the link the new HTML page is opened but
with this warning:
" Adobe Flash player has stopped a potentially unsafe
operation, the following local application on your computer or
network :
C:\..........\ Harmony_skin.swf is trying to communicate
withthis internet enabled location
c:\.......\Harmony.htm
to let this press ok ..."
I don't want this warning to appear for my users? how to get
rid of it ? or it is normal to have it on the internet I don't
know?
2- the Harmony_skin.swf is the actual movie I have implement
in Captivate which has the control buttons and the colsed
captioning in the middle bottom of the window which I want them to
appear, but when I publish it with the html file (Harmony.html)
they don't appear and for other swf files they appear slightly how
to make them appear? does thim mean I have to control the position
of the swf file in the HTML file ? how to do that?
3- I have seen this link sent to me by steve
http://javascript.about.com/library/blpopup10.htm
But I was not able to understand very well o to do that, I
mean how to control the position of the html window as I am very
new to HTMl and I am not very well practised can you help me in
that pleas?
Attached is my code and when you see the comment  it is the link I am talking about.
Appreciate your help

So you want your custom HTML page to open the Captivate movie
in a new window that's centered with the normal browser buttons?
If so, the "centered" part is a bit tricky. There's no way to
determine the exact height of the screen since the browser does not
know how the user's Windows Taskbar is displaying (hidden, one row
high, two rows high, etc). I always take an arbitrary 64 pixels off
the height just in case it's set to 2 rows high.
A suggestion would be to start with the example shown at
bottom, using the following as a reference for what each parameter
in the window.open() method does:
window.open()
Reference at MSDN
Also, you should NOT use spaces in any of your file and
folder names... that can be a problem in some cases.
Cheers,
John

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Hi Jeanette,
Please refer to the following forum post : http://forums.adobe.com/message/5122837#5122837
Cheers!
Aish

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I have recently noticed that my .swf files are not opening with flash player. I installed flash and it does not open .swf by default.
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good day to you all in this great forum
my name is james and i want to see if i can find help here in the forum for my problem.
I'm building a site for my friend. (the site is in hebrew so sorry....)
for the site building I'm using the software iweb - on mac.
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I can reproduce your error code by removing the mp3 from the
directory, or renaming it.
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Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2032:
Stream Error.
at KZFlash_fla::Sound_2/KZFlash_fla::frame1()
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I am trying to create a SWF file using indesign CS5. I have created buttons and placed in URL links but they always open another window. I would like to know if there is a way to have the URL open in the same window that the SWF file has been created. I tried, putting "_self" to target it in the URL bar, but nothing works.
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Okay, I found the code but I can't get it to work locally. If you have a web server maybe you can upload the files (swf and html) after you Publish them:
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
var myURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest ("http://www.google.com");
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ja_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,mouseClick);
function mouseClick(event:MouseEvent):void
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Post a link to the page so we can see it.

How to attach a Callto Link to a swf-file?

Hi,
I'm currently working on an animated skype button (swf-file) which I included into my website and I'd like to attach the following command to it:
Callto://myskypeid
It would be perfect, if - when hovering on it - it shows that it contains an active link (showing the "hand") and when clicking on it, it calls the user's skype app. to phone me on skype
So, in the adobe tutorials I found the following code for inserting a "hyperlink" to a button.
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
function gotoAdobeSite(event:MouseEvent):void
   var adobeURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.adobe.com/");
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linkButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gotoAdobeSite);
I customised the code:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
function openskype(event:MouseEvent):void
   var Skype:URLRequest = new URLRequest("Callto://myskypeId");
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linkButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openskype);
But the problem is that there occur "linkbutton not defined property or method" errors when running the code.
My swf or rsp. my fla file contains 10 movieclips which run one after another on the timescale, all in different layouts so that the colour changes during the "run".
I tried it with the first movieclip - layer1 - and named its instance "linkButton".
Didnt work.
Then I tried to insert another layer and attached another picture with alpha=0, converted it into a button and gave its Instance the name "LinkButton", but also didnt work.
Can someone please help me here? I suppose its just a "small" mistake and I couldn't be "so far away" from succeeding...
That would be great! Thanks for the help in advance!!

Hi Ned and all the others,
ok ...the problem isn't really fixed so far.
But the first step is done! :-) with the following code:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
function openskype(event:MouseEvent):void
   var Skype:URLRequest = new URLRequest("Callto://myskypeId");
   navigateToURL(Skype);
linkButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openskype);
I replaced the "Callto://myskypeId" with "skype:myskypeId?call" as the first syntax shows a wrong Skypname resp. the name will be shown with a "/" in the end.
But now i'm faced with the problem, that
1st: there's no "hand" shown, when hovering the button on the website.
2nd: I have to doubleclick on it to open the skype application.
3rd: after i doubleclicked on the button there opens up always an additional blank page shown in the browser. And now I try to fix that - I tried it with navigateToURL(Skype, "_self"); or "_parent" and so on...but didnt work.
Meanwhile I think the because of not all of the pictures - MCs - are attached to the instance of "linkButton" that there's the missing "hand" when hovering with the mouse the button. On testing i found out that some of the pics are still bitmaps although i converted them all in the beginning to MCs (??dont know what i did there...).
Think the "missing hand" problem will be fixed more easily.
The bigger problem is, how to avoid the additional blank page in the browser when clicking on the swf on the website?
It seems to me, that on the one hand, I'd like to have an "active" link on that swf (or button) that shows the "hand" in the mousepointer - but on the other hand, it's not really a website which I'd like to open up then but just an application. So maybe here's the main problem.
Alternatively I thought about replacing the sequence with the URL request in the code by something rather appropriate for lauching applications e.g. FS Command or something like that. (read that somewhere).
If someone knows/had similar problems/could help me again - or at least to the next step that would be perfect!
Thanks again, Ned for your helping advice (I learned something!!!) - maybe you could help me with the above probs?
Best regards
steff

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