[thelist] Quick Flash/link request

[Brian Cummiskey]

you have to make the link in flash itself.  you can't make an object have an HREF
valve.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <john at johnallsopp.co.uk>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 6:47 AM
Subject: [thelist] Quick Flash/link request


> Hi
>
> I'm new to Flash and it's Monday morning, so things aren't looking good.
>
> I want to make a small Flash movie a link in my web page but it's not
> working. The movie's displaying, but it's not a link. I've replaced the
> whole Flash stuff with an img and that works, so the link part is working.
>
> Is it that objects can't be links or something? So can't I create a flash
> movie that's a link? Or do I have to do it from within Flash, within the
> movie?
>
> Here's what I've got:
>
> <a href="myPage.php4">
>  <OBJECT classid= etc>
>   <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="myMovie.swf">
>   <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
>   <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#166993>
>   <EMBED src="myMovie.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#166993  WIDTH="450"
> HEIGHT="40" NAME="newsflash" ALIGN="left"
> TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
>   </EMBED>
>  </OBJECT>
> </a>
>
> Cheers
> J
>
>
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