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Simon
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16th Apr 06 at 19:53   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Ive used flash to make a swf button for a site in making in dreamweaver but I cant work out how to make the button a link, ive read one site that mentioned doing it through actions, but cant work out how to, if any body could give me a hand would be ace

cheers
Aaron
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16th Apr 06 at 20:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i dont have the software installed...but can you not right click on the .swf file and click on "make link" like you would a gif?

maybe not...but i havent used it for a while
abdus
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16th Apr 06 at 20:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=linking+a+.swf+button&btnG=Search&meta=
Steve
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16th Apr 06 at 20:32   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
you have to put it in the actionscript in macromedia flash
Simon
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16th Apr 06 at 20:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i ahve searched and think ive found the code that i need but when i try and put it in the action script bit i get errors that its not right, dont really know what im doing to be honest
Simon
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ok ive worked it out now, what would be the url if the link was to go to the index page in a parent directory?
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all depends where the swf button/page is in relation to the parent directry
ed
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18th Apr 06 at 13:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
../ to go up a directory or use the absolute location of the file (i.e. http://www.corsaspoprt.co.uk/forum/index.html)...
Simon
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18th Apr 06 at 15:34   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
cheers managed to sort it all,

 
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