I was wondering if someone can help me.. I want to make a animated button that when click on, it downloads a file.. I have been looking every where for a tutorial or info but no luck.. Can this be done?? or am I wasting my time?
Thanks..
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I was wondering if someone can help me.. I want to make a animated button that when click on, it downloads a file.. I have been looking every where for a tutorial or info but no luck.. Can this be done?? or am I wasting my time?
Thanks..
I'd guess that if you set getURL to a .zip/.mp3/.exe etc (whatever file you wanted to be downloaded) the user's system, be it Windows, Mac, Linux or any of the others, will automatically recognize that it's in a format that can't be displayed in a browser window and will offer the user the option to download it or not.
So set the button action to :
on (release) {
getURL ("http://www.whatever.com/dlThis.zip");
}
rather than directing it to an .html.
Please tell me if this works for you.
Hey thanks.. .I will try it tomorrow morning.. Its a word document and a PDF document that needs to be downloadable.. Hope it works.. Thanks again
.doc or .rtf (word) will be downloadable. .pdf will open in the browser window using the Adobe Reader. If you're offering .pdf's, put in a link to the Adobe website for the user to download the Reader in case they don't have it installed.
Who says there's no bonding between Adobe and Macromedia eh?? ;-)
thanks for the tip.. I will definetely do that....