Flash CS3 Buttons

[Newbie]

Ok I'm trying to create a navigation menu in flash. I've imported an external image and converted it to a button. When I right click on the button and select actions it tells me that I can not apply actions to the selected item. I want the button to go to a URL when clicked but not being able to give the item actions it's not possible. How can I get this to work?

[pugboy]

Too bad I don't have CS3, but at least I now how to use Flash :)

You should check if all 4 frames (Up, Down, Over, and Hit) are filled, so there is not just an Up frame. You will NEED to have that Hit frame filled for the button to work.

[Newbie]

Thanks for the tip of the "HIT". I've used this code to open up a URL in a different window, but how do I mod it to just open in the same window if it were embedded into an html application? BTW the name of the button is NAV1 and that is also the instance name too.

Nav1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goNow)
function goNow ( evt) {
var url = "http://www.google.com"
navigateToURL( new URLRequest(url) )
}

[pugboy]

Hmmm... I am used to Flash 5 (I know, it is old), so I can't help you on this one I 5, there is an "Easy Mode" and "Expert Mode", so you can use dropdown menus to code, and there is an option fr which window to open the url link in.

[Newbie]

Nevermind I reverted back to actionscript 2.0 and got it working fine. Thank you for your help pugboy.

For anyone else who would like to know when you create a symbol such as a button it can be coded by clicking on the button and hitting F9 then enter the following code:

on (release) {

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

}