Re: FLASH: A little/lot confused....

[Willem van den Goorbergh]

What they want, I think, is being able to change the url's without 

going into the flash file.

The idea is that the url's are stored in a .txt file (flashtext.txt) 

and called by the FSCommand.

I never did it this way. but I do use a similar system using load 

variables from a text file and calling them later in a get url 

statement.

The advantage is that you don't have to bother with urls (spelling, 

availability, relative position to the .swf etc.) all this is left to 

the responsibility of the client. (imagine changing over 100 geturl 

statements from ##.htm to ##.html: YEGH!)


The idea is quite simple:

a) Create a text only document with all the urls. No line breaks, 

spaces tabs etc; just one continuous string of text in which the 

variables to be loaded (the urls to be called) are separated by an 

ampersand (&)

like this:

URL1=thefirsturl.htm&URL2=thesecondurl.htm&URL3..... etc.


b) Load these variables early in you movie on level_0 (thus they are 

avialable throughout) by giving a frame the following action:

Load Variables ("kaarturls.txt", 0)


c) Finally he geturl statements should read:

On (Release)

    Get URL (/:URL#, window="_whereyouwantitloaded")

End On


This works perfectly for me (think Flash4 plugin is needed though)

HTH

Willem




>I'm designing an ad for a major search engine, and I have to create a link

>in  my Flash ad to send the user to a particular URL..  That's fine. But,

>the company sent me some specs, and they don't make sense, and I'm wondering

>if anyone else can figure out what this means? :

>

>

>"Instead of embedding clickthrough urls into .swf file, use the FSCommand

>statement as demonstrated below.

>

>SCREEN SHOT {Not available yet}

>On Actions tab in Flash

>

>Use Get URL Action

>URL= FSCommand:URL1

>Window: arg1

>Variables: Don�t Send

>

>Send also, one .txt file

>Text file includes the appropriate clickthrough urls and filenames as below:

>

>1.	Must be named flashtext.txt

>2.	Field Headings (such as �file� and �url1�) are spelled 

>exactly as listed

>above and separated from their respective fields by a single equals

>mark=(and not a space or TAB).

>3.	Default gif is named through the use of the alternate heading

>

>Send an alternate .gif file"

>

>

>I'm just looking at this going, "WHA?" -- I didn't know that FSCommand was

>used in the GetUrl action.. (or is that an older version of Flash??)

>

>ANY help, or ANY light shed on this would be greatly appreciated!! :)

>

>Thanks.

>

>Glen

>


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