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[jamratt]

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:

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

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(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]

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")}