Hi there i read the comments they were very useful but i am having a different problem i am trying to link my html file to a button and i entered this code in actions:
on(release){
getURL(“G:\E safety DIDA\E-portfolio\plan.html”,”_self”);
}

and when i click the button it says
No web page was found for the web address: file:///G:/%20safety%20DIDA/-portfolio/lan.html

so please help me please reply fast.
thanks

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional doesn’t even let me copy and paste the clickable code on the button when I press F9 (Actions) and consider the code as an when I export the video:( Can anyone help?

The errors are :
1-Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on(release);
…and I can’t even add the damn button in the Action options!!!

2-Syntax Errors
getURL(“http://light.cvgrenier.com/menu.html”, “_self”);

@ isobel – Usually this error code happens when there is a missing opening or closing bracket like this {

You might want to double check your code to see if a bracket is missing. Hope that helps!

Hi there,

also new to as – I have followed your instruction to the tee (trying to link my flash file to a URL) but I keep getting 1087: Syntax error: extra characters found after end of program.

Thanks a million!!!

Was scouring the net for an easy and comprehensible tutorial to do this seemingly simple task, and yours is the best! :D

Thanks :D

@Peter H – Glad to hear it was helpful!

Ditto to the above comments.

Thanks SO much for supplying an easy yet hard-to-find answer to a very common question.

Cheers, PH

Andrew, if you’re getting a syntax error from simply adding the above code, my first guess would be that you are using actionscript 3.0. The OnRelease getURL code will only work with actionscript 2.0.

If that isn’t the problem, you may want to try the creative cow forums http://forums.creativecow.net/. It is a great resource to look for help on problems like this one.

Hope that helps a bit! Thanks for stopping by!

Hi,

I’m a beginner with Flash. I’m having troubles with creating a couple of buttons that link to different URLs. Everytime I add the actionscript in, the rest of the animations go funny (the stop actionscript on the other animations don’t work) and I get a syntax error. Any ideas?

Please help…

Great! I am glad it worked easily for you Daniel. Adding a link is such a key thing we add to our flash videos, but for some reason their are not many tutorials on how to do it! Thanks for the comment Daniel and I hope to see you back around here again.