Flash buttons link in external text file

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By: Energy Complaints | posted in Flash, HTML/CSS, Tutorials, Web Design |
Date: October 28th, 2008

Let’s say you have 3 buttons inside of flash that link to different web sites and you want to be able to update those links without having to open the .fla file to decompile and then upload the .swf file.

With the action script below you can easily open the external .txt file and edit the links without ever having to open flash.

//put this script on a frame where all your 3 buttons are located…

textFile = new LoadVars()
textFile.onLoad = function(){
buttonlink1 = this.link1;
buttonlink2 = this.link2;
buttonlink3 = this.link3;
}
textFile.load(\”mylink.txt\”); // mylink.txt is your external text file

//—actionscript for buttons
//—make sure you have all your buttons instance name added. btn1, btn2 and btn3.

btn1.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink1, \”_self\”);
};

btn2.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink2, \”_self\”);
};

btn3.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink3, \”_self\”);
};

Then this is what you put inside mylink.txt

&link1=http://www.yahoo.com
&link2=http://www.google.com
&link3=http://www.w3schools.com

That’s it..

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