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Subject:	Re: FLASH: Closing a new window within Flash
From:	Sarah Lamont
Date:	Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:33:00 GMT

hey Eric,

thanks for the reply...:]
but I did do that, too, and it didn't work. Instead of closing the
window, it just brought up a blank document. One thing I did forget to
mention, though, is that I'm using frames here....that may be causing a
problem.
any other suggestions?

�arah
:]

Eric Smollin wrote:
>
> >I need some help with this...
> >I looked at some flash tutorial sites (mostly Colin Mook's) to find
> >answers, but it seems I can't get any of the suggestions to work for me.
> >Does anyone have an easy way to close a window with a button within the
> >flash movie?
> >The way I was doing it was putting this javascript into the html that
> >held the swf:
>
> Create a NEW html page and title it closer.html. In this page include the
> following code in the body tag:
>
> <body onload="self.close()">
>
> Save it. Put this HTML file in the same directory as your Flash files.
>
> In your Flash movie, give the close button the following actions:
>
> On (Release)
> Get URL ("closer.html")
> End On
>
> HTH
> -Eric-
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