Is there any difference between Flash 5 and 8?????

[LayLay]

Hi all,

As you could sense from my topic; I was used to Macromedia Flash 5 in the past but apparently the skills is no longer applicable in Macomedia Flash 8..... :(

What happen is I am eager to create a series of buttons to navigate to other pages within a web site but it does not seem to be easy now with Flash 8. :eek:

Have been searching for solutions online in the past few days but to no sucess until I came across your Forum and it seems you might be able to help out on my problem.....

I intend to have 6 navigation buttons and each links to different html pages. Till now, I fail to get even a button working.... What happen was when I publish the button, it is not clickable even though I can be sure that it is a Button symbol and naturally the Button effect; roll over etc. does not come into effect. Could this due to there is no actionscript being written to activate it?.... :confused:

I am really stuck now, hopefully some samaritan out there is able to help me out from this mess!!! :(

Many thanks....

[bluewalrus]

are you working with it as an as file or fla if fla you should double click the button give it and up down over and hit state the hit state tells it where to click in the action script window write... this is a screen video of it but from a cs3 window with as 2 should be pretty close to 8 though i think.

http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stV0xdQ0VLQVxZQFxdW1pR/flash_8_button



on (release) {
getURL("http://www.google.com")
}