Information Trapped Inside a Variable's Body

Now for that "Offical Site" button. We want to be able to link to the official site for each movie we list. Right now there is no action assigned to this button.

• Open the Instance Properties dialogue for the "Official Site" button, (double click, CTRL - I, or Modify > Instance), and go to the actions tab.
• Add and action: Get URL
• In the field for URL, type "url" (lowercase, without the quotes)
• Click the little button to the right that says "abc" and select Expression, (equals sign).
• Select _blank from the Window drop-down menu so that the site opens in a new window.
• Click OK.
  
  
  
  Here's what we did:
  
• Get URL: tells the browser to point to a new URL
• URL = "url": this is a variable we defined in our text file, data.txt
• Expression: this tells Flash to evaluate what we type in the URL field as a variable or expression instead of literally, (if we didn't change this option to expression the published Flash movie would tell the browser to go to the url "url", which in most cases would just reload the current page).
  

Now when you click on the "Official Site" button in the published .swf, your browser will point to the URL we designated in data.txt. Publish your movie and test it in a browser, (this action won't work in the Test Movie mode).

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