Re: FLASH: scripting challenge

[John Croteau]

Hi BarracoodA,


> I have a variable (that's loaded from a text file)

> called "email".  I have an email button.  This button

> of course is a symbol and the action of this symbol

> "instance properties" is a Get URL.  Usually it would

>

be someemailsomedomain [dot] com (mailto:someemailsomedomain [dot] com) but since I'm using

> a variable, these don't work:

> mailto: $email

> mailto: email

> mailto: eval [email]

> Simple solution is right around the RTFM I bet:)


Make sure you set type from ABC to Expression and enter

"mailto:" & email


Where email is the email address in the form

someemailsomedomain [dot] com

Also make sure you are loading the varible into the correct level 0


And GTTFB

See variables

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