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Good morning. I am in a pickle. I've only piddled in Flash
and am a complete noob to Actionscripting.

Basically, we no longer have a Flash designer on-site and
it's not in the budget to freelance the banner we need.

I've created a simple banner. When you roll over the banner a
layer appears that details the banner further. When you click on
the banner we want to open a web page (URL) in the same window.
Sounds simple or so I thought. sigh.

I've basically made the roll-over layer a symbol and have
applied the action script to that layer. However when I click on
the SWF in the browser it will not load that new page. Flash
application shows no errors in the script. (see script below.)

quote:

button1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseClick);
function onMouseClick(e:MouseEvent):void { var request:URLRequest =
new URLRequest("xxxxx"); }

(obviously I have the proper URL in my actionscript, not just
xxxx)
I'm sure it's pathetically simple. However this is escaping
me how to make this work.

Thanks.

Colin Holgate · Answer

Doing this:button1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseClick);function onMouseClick(e:MouseEvent):void { var request:URLRequest =new URLRequest("xxxxx"); }only sets up the request variable with what it needs to know.To actually go there, do this instead:button1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseClick);function onMouseClick(e:MouseEvent):void { var request:URLRequest =new URLRequest("xxxxx"); navigateToURL(request,"_self")}

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