Link to URL stopping snow effect

[craigeves]

I urgently need help.

I am using the downloaded snow effect from the following link.

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flas...s3_cs4_pg1.htm

I want to add a link to the movie:

I use this:

var link:URLRequest = new URLRequest (“www.myurl.com”);

button_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gooo);

function gooo(event:MouseEvent):void {

navigateToURL(link);

}

But it stops the snow - and I'm not sure that the links work either.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

[Shaedo]

keep in mind that you are adding code to button_mc and at least from a visual inspection I can't see the button so I presume you added it.

What your doing should not stop the snow.

Just for my personal curiosity can you try this instead:

var link:URLRequest = new URLRequest ('www.google.com');

button_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gooo);

function gooo(event:MouseEvent):void {

navigateToURL(link, "_blank");

} 

the basic information on navigateToURL can be found here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/F...navigateToURL()

[craigeves]

Thanks soooo much! That works perfectly.

I can see what you have changed - but please can you tell me why it would make such a difference?

Cheers

Craig

keep in mind that you are adding code to button_mc and at least from a visual inspection I can't see the button so I presume you added it.

What your doing should not stop the snow.

Just for my personal curiosity can you try this instead:

var link:URLRequest = new URLRequest ('www.google.com');

button_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gooo);

function gooo(event:MouseEvent):void {

navigateToURL(link, "_blank");

} 

the basic information on navigateToURL can be found here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/flash/net/package.html#navigateToURL()

[Shaedo]

I think the key phrase from the live docs (link previously provided) is:
"In the stand-alone player, you can either specify a new ("_blank") window or a named window. The other values don't apply."

So my interpretation is that the default value (null) does not work in the stand-alone player (that's the one your testing your code in).

Another way of putting this is that to run it in your compiler/stand-alone player you must have "_blank" as your second parameter/argument.