By: KeyFrame5 | posted in Flash, HTML/CSS, Tutorials, Web Design | 6 Comments »
Date: October 28th, 2008
With the action script below you can easily open the external .txt file and edit the links without ever having to open flash.
Then this is what you put inside mylink.txt//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\”);
};
&link1=http://www.yahoo.com
&link2=http://www.google.com
&link3=http://www.w3schools.com
That’s it..
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W3C XHTML 1.0, 
W3C CSS
THANK YOU! After struggling with loadVariables or loadVariablesNum to get it to load the file and put a URL, I finally gave up. THIS IS THE ONLY SOLUTION THAT WORKED FOR ME! TY
PS: Instead of doing the:
btn1.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink1, “_self”);
};
You can do the following also without specifying the button instance:
on (release) {
getURL(buttonlink1, “_self”);
}
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Thanks a lot you both, you solved like 6 hours of intense searching X)
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First of all, thank you for this, you’ve saved my life after a couple hours of losing my mind trying to figure this out.
Quick question…when I use test this in a browser (Firefox and Safari), it’s adding a “\” at the end of the URLs, leading to a page load error.
How do I fix this, or what might be causing it?
My test link for link1 is copied exactly from your mylink.txt window.
Thanks!
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figured it out, thought i’d post just in case anyone else has a similar problem. Not sure why, but it didn’t work when creating the .txt file with TextEdit, but creating it in Pages and exporting as a .txt worked great.
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Glad to hear you find this useful. Cheers.
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Simple, to the point, and had it working in under a minute. Thanks for taking the time to make this!
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