intro

Hey guys, my first real flash project, so take it easy on me. Smile ok, http://www.thesoccermall.net/intro/intro.html is the intro. at the end where i have the buttons, Enter Site and Replay Intro, i need to know how to link thoes to the webpages. Also tell me what you think of the intro.

poly

Hi
Thelink is not working

yeah... can't see whatever you're trying to show us...
but if what you're asking is simply how to link to another webpage from a flash button, just put this code on the button:

does that help?

peace,
puck

It should, two things, can you explain that code to me, and the button is a two state button, does this matter? Oh, and it will take a while to load, its 2 megs, and i havent done a preloader yet.

poly

oops, sry, link is http://www.thesoccermall.net/intro/intro.htm not http://www.thesoccermall.net/intro/intro.html should work now.

ok, when i try to add an action to it, it tells me "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it." What am i doing wrong?

well, let's see... it looks as if you're not actually applying the action to the button.

it doesn't matter that it's a two state button because you aren't going to apply that script to a STATE of the button... you are going to apply it to the button.

in other words, you've got your button on the stage somewhere.
select it with the mouse.
then, in the actions panel, but the script i wrote out for you (With the proper url substituted for whatever.html)
don't apply those actions to one of the states of the button (because that's just a graphic, not a button)... make sure you select the button itself to apply to action to.

cool?

also, that intro is mad bulky... look into a preloader and/or externally loading the sound and/or severely compressing those images... they're not very big, so it shouldn't be so heavy...

the size alone makes me not go look at it. 2mb?? I know full 3d and video intros that are not even that large. You should take some time to learn some optimization within flash to get that closer to 500kb or less.

Roarmeow, i selected the button, and used the code you gave me, but it isnt working. It is giving me errors, here is a screen of it http://www.thesoccermall.net/intro/screen.gif let me know if you want me to pm you where to dl the .fla also what did you think of the flash intro? decent for a first timmer?

thanks for your help
poly

make sure it's the button MC you have selected, not the layer itself. Clear any actions from that layer, and select the button to highlight it, then add it to the actions panel. that's all you should need to do here.

Unless i am missunderstanding you that is what i am doing. Here is a screenshot of what i am doing. http://www.thesoccermall.net/intro/screen2.gif

poly

your adding the code to the frame, select the button, then add the code

can you explain how to do this a little further? Sorry about being such a noob.

poly

you're selecting a frame, then putting in the action. forget your timeline for a second, and just go highlight/select your button MC. that's all you need to do, THEN put in that code in the actions panel.

you are putting the code on the timeline, that's not where it needs to be. hence the error.

sorry, i must be completely missing the point here or something, because i am still not understanding. If i send the .fla to somebody can you check it out and and change it and send it back to me so i can see what your doing?