FLASH CS3 EXPERT NEEDED- How do I use both Movie Clip animation inside a button and add a link to the button?

Question

Here the flash file of my menu. Test the movie then look through the library and movie clips and buttons and stuff check what I did wrong.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NALPAWQ0

I created a menu for a website in Photoshop and it has different headings on it (like Home,Contact,Media, etc.), but I when put it into flash CS3 I wanted each heading to be and individual button..so I used the Lasso tool and went around a heading and then converted it to a button symbol. I double clicked into it, then inserted two keyframes, one on up and one on over.

After that I wanted an animation (where a new image covers it) when the button is hovered over (rollover) so in the the over key frame I added another image to animate and made that a movie clip...I double clicked inside the movie clip ans did some motion tween animations.

so now when it rolls over is does the animation...

BUT IT WON'T CLICK to anything!! ...I can't go to any url's...

I tried every action script I could, but I keep getting an error.

How do I make the buttons work...so when I click it it goes to a website or another page or whatever?

PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

oki, well i notcied you are using actionscript 3.0

if you use actionscript 2.0 i can help you,

(you can change this by choosing publish at the bottom of your flash program in properties pannel)

in 2.0 all you need to do is "click on the button you wish to use > bring up the actions pannel > add:

on(press){

getURL("http://www.google.com", "_self");

}

you can change "_self" to "_blank" (if you want it to open in a new window or frame"

here is the final product.

preview swf - http://www.designer16.co.uk/ent_menu.swf

fla - http://www.designer16.co.uk/ent_menu.fla