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Can you zoom in on the other lines of code like you did the first one? Or, post that code on the web/blog site?

Hey Steele76:

Thanks for jumping in there! The only thing that I was going to add from the tutorial standpoint is that the instance name of the button is btn1. In that, make sure that the listener is attached to the correct instance name. For example, if you use a buton called btn1: the listener code would be:

btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, goLayersSite);

You rock, though..

Seriously… Ya need to be THAT spoonfed? Two people have ALREADY put the code up here, how about just reading?

Do you write the Actionscript in the button action. Or in the action layer?

I am a beginner in flash help me to improve my knowledge in actionscript i am preparing myself I found it difficult to understand coding

Do you really expect rockies like me to follow this, the video window is small and you did not even have the common sense to post a test version of the script. The reason why America is so F-uped is bad teachers like you who turn out students that are not prepared for life and get by with mastering 30%. Shame on you, a nasty shame on you

Hey Joe/Peter:

The code is the third comment on this post. Make sure you check it out.

RC

Jason, you didn’t have to come to this site. I guess your personal “Action” script is stuck in an ignorant local view loop. Maybe you should go grab some Flash for Dummies, or a Pocket Manual to Beginners flash if things arent making sense. Its not all the responsibility of the teacher you know, action on your part is the second leg of the race.

Forget it! I figured it out! woot!

Great tutorial and for those who want to be spoonfed…just read a bit more, if you are that lazy don’t bother trying to code, it’s just not for you.

I really need help here.

If I have a button named “MyButton” and I want it to play a Movie Clip on my main timeline called “MyClip”, what is the script I need?

Any help would be appreciated!

To DEBOK:

I had the same problem, I figured out that I need to change “goLayersSite” for every button, so for my first button I used “goLayersSite” then in the second button, everytime “goLayersSite” appeared in the code, I just appended a 2 to the end changing it to “goLayersSite2″
third button “goLayersSite3″ etc…

here’s the altered code with that in mind (and my own instance names)

btnaboutus.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, goLayersSite2);
function goLayersSite2(Event:MouseEvent):void {
var layersURL:URLRequest = new
URLRequest(“about_us.html”);
navigateToURL(layersURL);
}

navigateToURL(layersURL, “_self”);

Have fun! MAS

3rd Post
URLRequest(”http://www.layersmagazine.com”);

When you give the full url in would it need to be encapsulated in single quotes to make it literal? To keep it from trying to interpret the : in the url.

clearly explaned BUT i couldn’t see what you were writing.

This has been really helpful. I thank you guys!

But if you wanto do this framevise.

I have a button that i want to go to, lets say, frame 34. How do i write this?

I want to use a button to unload a movie previously loaded on level 2 of my master swf file. How do I do this in AS3/CS4?

I’ve tried saving an old swf file with AS2 preferences in CS4, but it doesn’t work. Actually, the old files still work, as long as I don’t open them & save in CS4. It doesn’t seem to matter what publishing preferences I choose. So it looks like I’m going to need to get friendly with AS3 right away.

Thanks for all of your hard work!

I am pretty new to Actionscript so far to say I can set up very basic “Event Listeners” to run movie clips etc.

My current project contains a self designed universal power button created originally in Photoshop which I use to fire up a few simple actions.
1. Off 2. Rollover and the colour changes 3. The buttons rollover colour remains but looks as if it’s been pressed. Pretty simple stuff.

However on mouse out, I would like the button to return and stop at the rollover stage (which looks as if the powers on) not the up (off stage).

This button only needs to act once to start the project and never be used again as the site menu kicks in.

example: http://www.pwcreativedesign.co.uk

For those of you who might be having syntax problems using CS4 and Actionscript 3 when trying to implement this code, this might be of some help. I was getting syntax errors on this line:

URLRequest(”http://www.layersmagazine.com”);

but after snooping around and trial and error I found that I needed to replace the ” ” quotation marks with ‘ ‘ apostrophes.

The whole URL will turn GREEN when its correct.

Hopefully this will work for you. I wasted almost 4 hours of my life to get that fucker working!

Hey Guys:

Thanks SOOO much for the Single quotes thing. Sometimes when I am typing out pretty fast, the little things get mucked up.

BL, and several others are absolutely correct. You need the URL in SINGLE QUOTES for it to work. So, if we take Jamie’s example:

btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, goThomasfranksSite);
function goThomasfranksSite(Event:MouseEvent):void {
var ThomasfranksURL:URLRequest=new URLRequest ;
‘http://www.thomasfranks.co.uk';
navigateToURL(ThomasfranksURL);
}

Thanks for keeping me honest over here..

RC

Thanks guys this has been a bitch !!! hate the new AS3, still cant get this to work properly, now my stop action on a movie is not working since i added this code

enterbt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, goLayersSite);
function goLayersSite(Event)
{
var site = new URLRequest(”http://www.lyuy.com”);
navigateToURL(site);
}

i have tried using this.stop but it keeps looping

Yeah I keep getting the syntax error too. I tried it with the apostrophes as well as with the quotation marks and neither work for me.
1084: Syntax error: expecting rightparen before colon.

got it after playing for a while, need a second pair of () in the code see below – change home to whaterever your instance is called. All I need to do is to get it to open the web page in the same page as the button was on.

home.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler);
function mouseDownHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
navigateToURL(new URLRequest(“http://www.google.com/”));
}

Jamie:
Try this:
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, goThomasfranksSite);

function goThomasfranksSite(Event:MouseEvent):void

{
var ThomasfranksURL:URLRequest=new URLRequest(‘http://www.thomasfranks.co.uk‘);
navigateToURL(ThomasfranksURL);
}