Hi all - I just got Koolmoves 6.1.1 - made a 15k banner to advertise at an online site, and it does not work. Here's a few emails from today - please help!! thanks -
Don't know what to tell you. The .swf file is not allowing itself to be clicked on or reading the click-through URL we are giving it. You can see what I mean by going to this page:
Please Note: Do not add a button to your banner which takes people directly to your homepage, because mandy.com will not be able to record any clickthroughs it receives. Instead, we require the ClickTag variable:
You will need to create a transparent button that responds to clicks on the banner. This should be the same size as the banner. Create this button within the topmost layer, and assign the following ActionScript to the button as an Object Action:
on (release) {
if (clickTAG.substr(0,5) == "http:") {
getURL(clickTAG);
}
}
This will allow us to supply a URL on our site that detects clicks on your banner, before forwarding the user on to your own site.
Create a rectangle the same width and height of the movie. In the properties of the rectangle (double-click on rectangle), set border to 0 width and set fill color transparency to 100%. Right-click on rectangle and select Convert to Button. Copy the button to all frames (select the button in the first frame, press Ctrl+C, go to the next key frame, select Edit > Past Shapes to End).
Right-click on the button and select Edit Button Actions. Add getURL(clickTAG) button action. This adds the following button action:
on (release)
{
getURL(clickTAG, "_blank");
}
If you attempt to test this action by entering a FlashVars statement in File > Export Settings of the form clickTAG=http://www.yourdomain.com, you may encounter a Flash security message. The reason for this message is that you are trying to access the internet from a swf run off your local disk. You can either ignore the message because it probably will not occur when you run the swf off a server or you can set the Flash version to 8 and set local file security in File > Export Settings to network.
The FlashVars statement should not contain any unnecessary spaces as these are exported to the html file as %20. A single quote becomes %27 and a double quote becomes %22.
One thing to try before we look at the fun file is as follows;
Create a rectangle the size of your work.
Make sure that is is on every frame of your project.
Click to adjust all frames, and under fill make the box transparrent.
Click to make the box a button
Then right click on the box, and under actions use the gotoUrl function to take a click (onRelase) from your new button to your destination.
here it is - I am urgently trying to get this on the site, so anyone that can figure out why it is not working on thier site www.lake-link.com is my hero! I have exported it to them as swf file. Do I need to do it as a swf and html file or?? It is the 125 x 125 pixel banner you see on the left side of their pages...
when I do the above, where is "flashvars" setting? Only field available is when I select "swf in subdirectory" - please explain "The HTML does need the flashvars command that contains your link"
OK - that test page is coming from the person at Lake-link that is trying to get my ad to work. Here's the latest version - top one works, mine does not. Something about the button properties? http://www.lake-link.com/swftest.cfm
There is a quick example, a quick movie ( 4 frames ) with a transparrent button over the whole thing, and using the getUrl facility I have linked it to my site.
Both ads use the EXACT same code and the only thing that is different is the actual SWF file. When you hover over your ad you will see a hand like you can click on it but this is only to activate the flash control in the browser but then you should be able to click on it again and it should open a new page just like it does for the top example. I am not a Flash guru or anything but the code we have on our end to output the banner should work; it works with all other flash ads except yours so it makes me think there is some setting on the program you are using that is not allowing users to click on it on our site. Below is the code to display your banner:
Put this code on your site once and see if it will work. (The actual link in the code is not your site but it is irrelevant for testing purposes). Put the swf file in the same directory as the web page.
So, I am thinking there is some setting when you generate the swf file that is prohibiting the clicking on SWF file or is restricting any interaction to a local domain. See if you can get the ad to work on a page on your server. Please let me know.
For some reason I cannot get your swf file to be made clickable. Did you embed a link in the file or did you somehow force a disabling of clicking on the file within the swf file itself? Can you look in the program you used to make the file? Do not put any links or anything within the file itself. All we need is the raw SWF file. Please let me know.
I did, but I think on that version, I still had the rectangle border width at 1. Now it's at 0. I just resent it as flash 8 export. We'll see if that does it...
[RESOLVED] URGENT Help with animated banner -
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