layer on top of a flash movie

[MJB3K]

Hi, i have a flash movie and want to put a layer about it so you can click the layer and it goes to another url.

How would i do this??

-------DIV LAYER-------- << clickable to another url.
------FLASH MOVIE------ << still visible underneath

any ideas??

Regards,

Martin

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[Foamcow]

Why not put a button in the flash movie?

Make a large square over the whole movie.
Make it a MovieClip
Set a getURL action on it
Make it invisible (set it's Alpha to 0)

Job done.

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[MJB3K]

I don't want a button in the movie because i will be loading the link urls from a mysql db and want a layer over the top so i can easily edit the link url.

Any ideas??

Regards,

Martin

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[Foamcow]

You can get the button's actual link URL from a parameter passed when embedding the flash movie.

I did something similar here

http://www.avoncrusadeshakeit.co.uk/jukebox-tamzin-outhwaite.php

See the little "hear sample" thingies?
They are flash elements. But there is only 1 flash movie for the whole site.

If you look at the code I call the swf like so

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="[b]audioPlayer.swf?trackName=i_found_lovin.mp3[/b]" width="64" height="32">
			<param name="movie" value="[b]audioPlayer.swf?trackName=i_found_lovin.mp3[/b]" />
			<param name="loop" value="false" />
			<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
</object>

What happens is that my audioplayer.swf contains some actionscript that will stream the mp3 file with the filename passed to it in the URL parameter, "trackName".

So if I were to do something with a link button, I might call the swf like this

mymovie.swf?link=coolPage.html

and the actionscript on the overlay button might look like this

on (release){
 getURL(link)
}

So whenever I click the button in the flash movie it loads the page defined in the parameter used when embedding it!

So you can have just one flash movie and call it with a different URL each time you embed the movie into your page.

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