Re: FLASH: Getting the mailto: to work!

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

Hi Michael.


I'm not quite following what it is you've tried so far, but you can call the

mailto: entirely within Flash if it's for web playback. After you make the

button and place it on the stage, double-click it. Select the Action tab. Click

on the plus (+) sign and select Get Url. For the url, enter:

mailhk5 [dot] com (mailto:mailhk5 [dot] com)

Leave the "window" field blank.


If you want your entire Flash movie to function as a button that calls up the

user's default mail program, just make sure the button's hit area covers the

entire stage.


-Marce


At 04:03 PM 5/28/99 -0400, you wrote: 

>

> As a relative newbie to Flash but a long time user of Director, if baffled

> at the fact that I cant figure this out, hence my reason for joining the

> list and picking your brains.

>

> I have a small simple 2 scene Flash file that has two buttons on it. The

> first button simply switches states on rollover for a visual effect, and the

> second I cant seem to get to work properly.

> The second is a line of text which I turned into a button symbol, and I am

>

trying to get it, on click, to mailhk5 [dot] com (mailto:mailhk5 [dot] com) ...simple enough right?

>

> So I've implemented the Flash file into my GoLive page, and everything plays

> back fine as frog's hair..BUT, the button won't launch the email client.

>

> Now I tried a bunch of possible solutions to this, one of which was to put

> the file through Aftershock to generate the code. Once this was done, I

> tried launching the Aftershocked generated html by itself in both IE4.5

> (Mac) and Navigator 4.01 (mac) and found that the email DID work in IE but

> not in Netscape.

>

> Any thoughts?

> Michael 






Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

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