Click button to send to new URL

I have a simple 15 second flash animation that works fine, but I want to make an invisible button over it that when clicked opens a new URL. In other words, the cursor turns into a hand, then when the 300 x 250 pixel image is clicked, a new website comes up in a new browser tab. I assume that I will need to use a transparent layer as a button on top of the other layers. But, I am not sure how to load the code into this top transparent layer. Thanks for any help offered.

You can place the code on the main timeline, and have it reference the transparent layer. Let's say the invisible button is called 'invisiButton' and you want it to go to another page when clicked....you would have the following code in the main timeline.

Code:

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invisiButton.onReleased = function(){
    getURL("anotherpage.html", "_self");
}

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You would use code like

Code:

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invisiButton.buttonMode = true

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to give it the hand cursor when the mouse if over the area.

Thanks samac1068. I actually had to dig a little further to get the hyperlink to work correctly as I am using AS3. Now, I am trying to figure out how to set up a clickTAG in the same set of commands.

You can use the eventlistener with the function in the command like this:

Code:

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invisiButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(){getURL("anotherpage","_self")});

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Originally Posted by samac1068

You can use the eventlistener with the function in the command like this:

Code:

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invisiButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(){getURL("anotherpage","_self")});

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Hi, I tried doing this with a url but it said in Firefox:
Firefox can't find the file at /G:/Webpages/A Touch of Romance/GE_CreditLine_OLA FINAL 120609/undefined

No matter how I try to tell it to go to a url when they click on the layer it always says undefined :(

Any ideas? The FLA file is attached

The only invisible button I see is called Hit and contains completely different actionscript. You have the variable clickTag at the URL, but it isn't defined anywhere. If this represents you invisible button, then you need to move your code to the correct location because the code for the invisible button is being ignored.