What is the code?

[chineseadam]

how do I link text to a website in flash cs5? I've tried everything...

[Ned Murphy]

For AS3, use the navigateToURL()

     navigateToURL(new URLRequest(http://www.wherever.com));

[chineseadam]

My website is viewable online at www.thewreath.org.  I still can't get the text to hyperlink to another site.  What should I do? The link I think gets broken and I can't see the dynamic content.  All I can see is red.

package

{

          import flash.display.MovieClip;

          import flash.events.Event;

          import flash.net.URLRequest;

          import flash.net.navigateToURL;

          import gs.TweenLite;

          import gs.easing.*;

          import org.papervision3d.events.InteractiveScene3DEvent;

          import org.papervision3d.materials.MovieAssetMaterial;

          import org.papervision3d.objects.DisplayObject3D;

          import org.papervision3d.objects.primitives.Plane;

          import org.papervision3d.view.BasicView;

          public class DocClass extends BasicView

          {

                    public var plane:Plane;

                    public var plane1:Plane;

                    public var plane2:Plane;

                    public var current:Plane;

                    public var home:MovieAssetMaterial;

                    public var about:MovieAssetMaterial;

                    public var contact:MovieAssetMaterial;

                    public var centerY:Number;

                    public var centerX:Number;

                    public function DocClass()

                    {

                              super(0, 0, true, true);

                              centerY = stage.stageHeight / 2;

                              centerX = stage.stageWidth / 2;

                              home = new MovieAssetMaterial("homeMat", true, true);

                              about = new MovieAssetMaterial("aboutMat", true, true);

                              contact = new MovieAssetMaterial("contactMat", true, true);

                              home.interactive = true;

                              home.smooth = true;

                              about.interactive = true;

                              about.smooth = true;

                              contact.interactive = true;

                              contact.smooth = true;

                              plane = new Plane(home, 350, 90, 1, 1);

                              plane.name = "homeButton";

                              plane.useOwnContainer = true;

                              plane.alpha = 0;

                              plane1 = new Plane(about, 350, 90, 1, 1);

                              plane1.name = "aboutButton";

                              plane1.useOwnContainer = true;

                              plane1.alpha = 0;

                              plane2 = new Plane(contact, 350, 90, 1, 1);

                              plane2.name = "contactButton";

                              plane2.useOwnContainer = true;

                              plane2.alpha = 0;

                              plane.z = plane1.z = plane2.z =-600;

                              plane.x = -400;

                              plane1.x = 0;

                              plane2.x = 400;

                              plane.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_PRESS, clicked);

                              plane1.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_PRESS, clicked);

                              plane2.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_PRESS, clicked);

                              plane.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_OVER, over);

                              plane1.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_OVER, over);

                              plane2.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_OVER, over);

                              plane.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_OUT, out);

                              plane1.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_OUT, out);

                              plane2.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_OUT, out);

                              scene.addChild(plane);

                              scene.addChild(plane1);

                              scene.addChild(plane2);

                              startRendering();

                              TweenLite.to(plane, .5, {alpha:1});

                              TweenLite.to(plane1, .5, {alpha:1, delay:.5});

                              TweenLite.to(plane2, .5, {alpha:1, delay:1});

                    }

                    protected override function onRenderTick (e:Event = null):void

                    {

                              var rotY: Number = (mouseY - centerY) / centerY * 200;

                              var rotX: Number = (mouseX - centerX) / centerX * 200;

                              camera.x += (rotX - camera.x) / 10;

                              camera.y -= (rotY + camera.y) / 10;

                              super.onRenderTick();

                    }

                    public function clicked(e:InteractiveScene3DEvent):void

                    {

                              trace(e.target.name);

                              switch(e.target.name)

                              {

                                        case "homeButton":

                                                  navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://index.html"), "_blank");

                                                  break;

                                        case "aboutButton":

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

                                                  break;

                                        case "contactButton":

                                                  navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.google.co.uk"), "_blank");

                                                  break;

                              }

                    }

                    public function over(e:InteractiveScene3DEvent):void

                    {

                              current = e.target as Plane;

                              viewport.buttonMode = true;

                              var obj:MovieClip = MovieClip(MovieAssetMaterial(current.material).movie);

                              TweenLite.to(obj, .4, {frame:20, ease:Back.easeIn});

                    }

                    public function out(e:InteractiveScene3DEvent):void

                    {

                              current = e.target as Plane;

                              viewport.buttonMode = false;

                              var obj:MovieClip = MovieClip(MovieAssetMaterial(current.material).movie);

                              TweenLite.to(obj, .4, {frame:1, ease:Back.easeOut});

                    }

          }

}

Message was edited by: chineseadam

[Ned Murphy]

I missed the "text" detail part of your first posting.  What in the code that you just showed is the problemed part?

If you want to link text that is in a textfield then you can use an html link if you assign the text to the htmlText property of the textfield.

[chineseadam]

I tried that.  The screen is just red.  If I tamper with the illustration, by making a hyperlink, the website just goes red.  I need this fixed.  Do you want the file?

[Ned Murphy]

If you show/explain what you are having a problem with someone might be able to help.  I do not see anyting in the code you showed that involves linked text, nor do I see anything in the site except for a number of images that fly too fast to try to click.

[chineseadam]

the flying text is interactive.  If you hover over with your mouse, it slows down and the flying goes in the opposite direction.  Should I make the flying slower? I am having a problem with the text linking to websites when the mouse clicks onto a word/image or text.  I use actionscript with making a button or movie clip but i just end up seeing the red background of the flash file.  Can you help, please?

[Ned Murphy]

Just assign the clicking event listeners to the movieclips instead of the text.  If the text happens to be in a dynamic textfield, be sure to set its selectable property to false (In the Properties panel click the selectable icon which appears as a small "Ab") to deselect it).

[chineseadam]

I put the wrong code in by mistake.  This is the code:

package {

          import flash.display.*;

          import flash.events.*;

          public class ThreeD extends Sprite {

                    private var cont:MovieClip;

                    public var material:MovieClip;

                    public var speed:Number=0;

                    private var menu:Array = new Array();

                    public function ThreeD():void {

                              cont = new MovieClip();

                              cont.x=stage.stageWidth*0.5;

                              cont.y=stage.stageHeight*0.5;

                              addChild(cont);

                              addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, render);

                              material = new Content();

                              material.stop();

                              material.x = 620;

                              material.y = 100;

                              material.alpha=0.7;

                              addChild(material);

                              makeChildren();

                    }

                    private function makeChildren():void {

                              for (var i:uint=0; i<10; i++) {

                                        var bl:MovieClip = new Blob();

                                        bl.alpha=0.8;

                                        bl.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);

                                        bl.z=3000-(i*400);

                                        var frame=i+1;

                                        bl.gotoAndStop(frame);

                                        cont.addChild(bl);

                                        menu.push(bl);

                              }

                    }

                    private function onClick(e:Event):void {

                              var sp:MovieClip=MovieClip(e.target);

                              material.gotoAndStop(sp.currentFrame);

                    }

                    private function movement():Number{

                              var a:Number = stage.mouseX;

                              var b:Number = stage.stageWidth / 2;

                              var c:Number = 60;

                              return 0-((a-b)/c);

                    }

                    function render(e:Event):void {

                              speed  += movement();

                              if (speed>=50) {

                                        speed=50;

                              }

                              if (speed<=-50) {

                                        speed=-50;

                              }

                              for(var j:int=menu.length-1;j>=0;j--) {

                                        // loop through menu

                                        menu.z+=speed;

                                        if (menu.z>3400){

                                                  menu.z=-600;

                                        }

                                        if (menu.z<-600){

                                                  menu.z=3400;

                                        }

                              }

                    }

          }

}

And here is the code I am putting on the text or movie clip:

stop();

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

import flash.net.URLRequest;

var get ;bourbon_mc.URLRequest=new URLRequest("http://wwww.google.co.uk");

bourbon_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, bClick),

function bClick(event:MouseEvent):void{

          navigateToURL(getbourbon);

}

}

Why is it not working?

[Ned Murphy]

This line makes no sense:

var get ;bourbon_mc.URLRequest=new URLRequest("http://wwww.google.co.uk");

and you appear to have an extra curly brace at the very end.

Get rid of it and try:

bourbon_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, bClick),

function bClick(event:MouseEvent):void{

     navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://wwww.google.co.uk"));

}

[Ned Murphy]

If you happen to get error message you need to include them in your posting.

[chineseadam]

Symbol 'bourbon_mc', Layer 'Layer 2', Frame 1, Line 5	1061: Call to a possibly undefined method addEventListener through a reference with static type Class.
Symbol 'bourbon_mc', Layer 'Layer 2', Frame 1, Line 5	1120: Access of undefined property bClick.

[chineseadam]

I got two error messages... (see last posting)

[Ned Murphy]

There us something wrong with the object your code is targeting as bourbon_mc.

bourbon_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, bClick),

What is that object and how was it created?

Also, at the end of that same line you have a comma.  That could be a source of an error.  Lines of code end with semi-colons.