Re: FLASH: Getting the mailto: to work!

[Michael Wynn]

Hi, and thanks Marc.


I've gotten to the point of creating the mailto: link, but I'm really having

problems I guess, when it comes to having that link actually work once its

in my web page. For some reason the button never launches the email client.


Im developing the page with Go Live and it seemed to implement the Flash

piece well, but not pay attention to the mailto: command. If generate the

html for the page through Aftershock and try it its ok, but then I run into

a while other problem of how to put the Aftershock html into my GoLive

page...it seems to cause alot of problems so Im hoping to find a way that

gets the email to work without having to do that. :)


thanks,

Mike


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>

From: "Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media" <maildartfrogmedia [dot] com>

>

To: flashershocker [dot] com

>Subject: Re: FLASH: Getting the mailto: to work!

>Date: Fri, May 28, 1999, 4:46 PM

>


> 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

>

>

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