Question

I guess its probably a simple thing to do – but is there anyway to use flash simply as a link image?

        <a href"#">link text <FLASH FILE></a>

I have a link animation I would like to use after each url link, I have setup the code as
but when clicking the flash file nothing happens, only when clicking the link text. I guess I need to turn off the interaction via a param, but cant find which to use.

Any advice gratefully received!

Cheers
Paul

Answer 1

You will have to create the link inside the flash itself, recompile and then include it into your HTML markup. It won’t need to be inside an .

For the flash thing, create a layer with full width and height and assign it a click listener:

AS3:

myLayer.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openLink);

function openLink(e:MouseEvent) {
   navigateToURL(new URLRequest("yourURLhere"));
}

AS2:

myLayer.onRelease = function() {
   getURL("yourURLhere");
}

You still have another tricky solution, which would be setting the wmode of the flash to opaque or transparent and place an with the same dimensions over it with z-index.