SWF ActionScripts in Photoline

[edurovs]

I've made some SWF banners with Photoline, but webpage administrators ask me to add some ActionScript code (clickTAG button with code

Code: Alles auswählen

on (release)
{getURL(_root.clickTAG, "_blank");}

) to my banners. Is there any way to add such ActionScript code in Photoline.

[Martin Huber]

I've made some SWF banners with Photoline, but webpage administrators ask me to add some ActionScript code (clickTAG button with code

Code: Alles auswählen

on (release)
{getURL(_root.clickTAG, "_blank");}

) to my banners. Is there any way to add such ActionScript code in Photoline.

You can use "Web > Image Map > Assign Command" to define a destination URL for the active layer.

If you have a dynamic animation (created with "Web > Dynamic Animation"), you can use the Animation Info dialog to define a destination URL, too.

Martin

[edurovs]

You can use "Web > Image Map > Assign Command" to define a destination URL for the active layer.

If you have a dynamic animation (created with "Web > Dynamic Animation"), you can use the Animation Info dialog to define a destination URL, too.

Martin

It doesn't work Photoline generates quotation marks in the code, see Photoline's generated example:

Code: Alles auswählen

on (release) {
    geturl ("_root.clickTAG", "_blank");
    stop();
}

"_root.clickTAG" must be without quotation marks.

[Martin Huber]

It doesn't work Photoline generates quotation marks in the code, see Photoline's generated example:

Code: Alles auswählen

on (release) {
    geturl ("_root.clickTAG", "_blank");
    stop();
}

"_root.clickTAG" must be without quotation marks.

In PhotoLine you can only access direct URLs. Accessing variables doesn't work.

Martin

[greenmorpher]

I would be most grateful if someone could expand on this a little to explain the meaning of the HTML, including fixed versus variable, the significance of the quotation marks, and the outcomes of it all.

tnanks in anticipation of elucidation!

Cheers, geoff

Geoffrey Heard
The Ad-Doctor-Online
http://www.ad-doctor-online.com

[edurovs]

In PhotoLine you can only access direct URLs. Accessing variables doesn't work.

Hope to see new features in this field in next Photoline versions
God bless you guys!

[bkh]

I would be most grateful if someone could expand on this a little to explain the meaning of the HTML, including fixed versus variable, the significance of the quotation marks, and the outcomes of it all.

First of all, this isn't HTML but some script language. Anyway,

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    geturl ("_root.clickTAG", "_blank");

tries to open the URL http://_root.clickTAG, while

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    geturl (_root.clickTAG, "_blank");

looks up the URL stored in the variable _root.clickTAG and opens that URL.

Compare it to making a phone call. The URL corresponds to the phone number, say, 1-834-261-891, and the variable might be the phone book entry "Peter" in your phone. The first approach would be to directly dial 1-834-261-891, while the second would be to choose "Peter" in the phone book and press "dial". "Peter" is much easier to remember, is shorter, less error-prone, and you don't have to change your procedure if the phone number happens to change.

Cheers

Burkhard.

[greenmorpher]

I would be most grateful if someone could expand on this a little to explain the meaning of the HTML, including fixed versus variable, the significance of the quotation marks, and the outcomes of it all.

First of all, this isn't HTML but some script language. Anyway,

Code: Alles auswählen

    geturl ("_root.clickTAG", "_blank");

tries to open the URL http://_root.clickTAG, while

Code: Alles auswählen

    geturl (_root.clickTAG, "_blank");

looks up the URL stored in the variable _root.clickTAG and opens that URL.

of course -- Java script presumably?

Compare it to making a phone call. The URL corresponds to the phone number, say, 1-834-261-891, and the variable might be the phone book entry "Peter" in your phone. The first approach would be to directly dial 1-834-261-891, while the second would be to choose "Peter" in the phone book and press "dial". "Peter" is much easier to remember, is shorter, less error-prone, and you don't have to change your procedure if the phone number happens to change.

Right, got that -- many thanks, Burkhardt.

Now presumably, something has to replace the stuff between the quotation marks. Yes? How is that determined? Or is that automatic when the banner is placed within a site's URL and the site is saved then uploaded to the host site?

Cheers, geoff

[bkh]

[Now presumably, something has to replace the stuff between the quotation marks. Yes? How is that determined? Or is that automatic when the banner is placed within a site's URL and the site is saved then uploaded to the host site?

As far as I can see, this value is passed to the swf object by the surrounding HTML code (which, in turn, might use a script to get it elsewhere).

Cheers

Burkhard.

[greenmorpher]

Many thanks, Burkhardt.

Cheers, geoff