Hi I would like to know, how do I add a Hyperlink on Flash, that opens a PDF in adobe reader and not the web browser.

[simom29582894]

Hi I would like to know, how do I add a Hyperlink on Flash, that opens a PDF in adobe reader and not the web browser.

[Joseph Labrecque]

That has to do with what program the user has set to be the default PDF reader. You probably do not ahve much control over such a thing from Flash Player.

[simom29582894]

Thanks for such a quick response Joseph,

I am creating a presentation, that I'll be running on my laptop, the problem is I need to link to an AUTOCAD file, which can't be previewed on a web browser, I need to click on the Hyperlink, and it must open the drawing on AutoCad. can your help?

[Joseph Labrecque]

If you link directly to the local AutoCad file within the project it doesn't simple open in AutoCad? I imagine it should.

[simom29582894]

How do you link, within a project, are there any tutorials that can help me? I want to create a button that will open the link for me.

[Joseph Labrecque]

Check the Code Snippets panel - you can find all sorts of neat starters there.

Here is the one for a hyperlink:

/* Click to Go to Web Page

Clicking on the specified symbol instance loads the URL in a new browser window.

Instructions:

1. Replace http://www.adobe.com with the desired URL address.

   Keep the quotation marks ("").

*/

instance_name_here.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToWebPage);

function fl_ClickToGoToWebPage(event:MouseEvent):void {

  navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.adobe.com"), "_blank");

}

So for a local file - just put the path to the file in place of a URL.

[Joseph Labrecque]

You can also use something like FSCommand to execute local code from Flash files:

flash.system - Details Adobe ActionScript® 3 (AS3) API Reference

[simom29582894]

Yoh, what is FSCCommanr ? sorry man I am an absolute beginner in Flash. I tried the code:

/* Click to Go to Web Page

Clicking on the specified symbol instance loads the URL in a new browser window.

Instructions:

1. Replace http://www.adobe.com with the desired URL address.

   Keep the quotation marks ("").

*/

instance_name_here.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToWebPage);

function fl_ClickToGoToWebPage(event:MouseEvent):void {

  navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.adobe.com"), "_blank");

}

this is the same code I used before and it opens a pdf file in a web browser, and it doesn't open an AutoCAD file.

[Joseph Labrecque]

Can I see what your code looks like?